Technology Management ~ Mission and Services

Many sponsored programs and other academic and research projects have the potential to create marketable products, technologies, or techniques. The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs’ Division of Technology Management, in concert with University of Mississippi research centers and academic departments, helps identify this potential and promote its appropriate realization in the marketplace. This division also assists faculty members in fulfilling their responsibility to cooperate with the University in patenting, licensing, and otherwise commercializing technology for which they are inventors.

The Division of Technology Management works to stimulate the development of alliances with corporate partners based on the technology strengths of the University in order to strengthen U.S. industry, especially industry in Mississippi, and works to ensure that inventions conceived and developed in University laboratories that have commercial potential are protected and commercialized for the benefit of the inventors, the University, the State of Mississippi, and society.

Technology Management staff are available to assist faculty and other personnel in identifying proposed project activities that may potentially result in patentable inventions. This ensures that faculty are informed at the outset concerning what to do to protect the inventions that may arise from the sponsored project, and also ensures that appropriate language is included in the sponsored research agreement establishing the relationship between the University and the sponsor should an invention arise from the sponsored project.

Faculty and University agreements and obligations are detailed in the UM Patent and Invention Policy. If you have ideas about collaboration with industrial partners, have conceived, invented, or discovered something that may be patentable, or have any questions about the UM Patent and Invention Policy or about protection and commercialization of University technology, contact the Division of Technology Management (915-7134, or wchambli@olemiss.edu).