PSU Research Innovation Rally
We endeavor to move faculty innovations into the world in a way that promotes your research, enhances your projects, and drives real impact.
We'd like to explore how this mission might help your projects!
From now until June 30th, we're holding a rally to hear from you about your ideas and research. We invite any PSU faculty member to submit a disclosure to our office via our online disclosure portal (see below). All disclosures will receive feedback and may result in engagement with patents, copyrights, and external partnerships. The top three disclosures will be evaluated by an external group for potential impact, likelihood of securing intellectual property protection, and partnership opportunities, and will receive funding announced September 1st.
We want to hear your ideas about how your research or project results can make the world a better place. We work with both technology-based innovations through patents, and with text-based innovations involving copyrights. See our profile page for examples of the breadth of projects we work with.
Award: $20,000 in unrestricted research funds, and $5,000 in proposal development funds to support further research related to the idea. Two runners-up will receive $5,000 in proposal development funds.
Go to psuinnovation.ttoportal.com. The first time you visit, sign up for an account with your odin name. When we approve the account you can log on and fill out a disclosure. You can upload existing documents if you have a description of your project already. The rest of the form should take 10-20 minutes.
Guidelines for patent projects:
Patent ideas are generally concerned with a tangible device or process that is new, useful, and innovative over what has come before. Engineering, physics, chemistry, and biology often produce patentable ideas, a patent disclosure should be focused on idea or thing that has not been published, and that may have commercial potential.
Guidelines for copyright projects:
Copyrights accrue to any text that you have written. Examples can include research instruments, curriculum, guides, software, web content, designs, and many others. Copyright can come from any research group. Ideal copyright projects can be licensed to our external partners in restricted ways so that you have control over the impact your project can have.
