OU Office of Innovation and Corporate Partnerships

The Office of Innovation and Corporate Partnerships is focused on integrating the university’s efforts in technology commercialization, entrepreneurship, and corporate partnerships for sponsored research and education. The creation of this office at OU is the latest step in fulfilling a component of the Lead On, University Strategic Plan that calls for ensuring “flexible and efficient intellectual property policies and processes that make the faculty and staff competitive when seeking the support of the private sector, or when seeking to patent and license inventions.” For instance, we recently announced new intellectual property terms for corporate-sponsored research at the Norman Campus designed to bridge academic research and workforce development with corporate innovation to drive economic development and technological advances in the state. We have similar efforts occurring at all three campuses – all designed to more effectively move technologies into the marketplace and to make business easy to transact with us.