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Faculty Projects
Innovation & Intellectual Property
Increasing the impact of PSU innovations through the tool of intellectual property
Innovation & Intellectual Property
Innovation and Intellectual Property is responsible for protecting and managing patentable and copyrighted works developed in the course of PSU research activities. We serve PSU faculty, students, and staff by promoting the use and increasing the impact of innovations developed in the course of research activities. By working with IIP, PSU innovators create lasting impacts on our world.
In many cases, copyright licensing revenue supports the personnel and other costs necessary to maintain a program that provides long-term value to our partners. This work promotes ongoing program sustainability, allowing the innovation to be part of the future of PSU’s impact.
The impact of patentable innovations can take several forms. PSU will work with the inventors to determine if the invention can be licensed or could result in an industry partnership to further develop the technology. In some cases, a startup company is the best opportunity to take the innovation to market, while also creating additional impacts of jobs and sales revenue coming back to the State of Oregon.
Innovation Highlights
New Tools to Study Disease
PSU researchers develop novel probes to detect disease biomarkers.
Recent research describes a new tool for detecting thioredoxin reductase, an enzyme associated with cancers, including melanoma and lung cancer.
Here to Help
Connecting adolescents, families, and educators to health resources.
Here to Help is an online tool designed to help adolescents, their caregivers, and family members identify stressors that may impact their health and wellbeing and connect them to resources.
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Active licenses
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Innovation disclosures
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Startup companies
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Patented Technologies
University Venture Development Fund
Portland State University’s Office of Innovation & Intellectual Property uses UVDF funds to support projects and startup companies with the potential to increase the impact of PSU innovations, thanks to generous gifts from many donors.
Innovate Collaborate Oregon
Innovate Collaborate Oregon promotes interaction between industry and Oregon research universities. Universities work with entrepreneurs and industry to advance discoveries through collaborative research and licensing. These efforts ensure ideas generated at Oregon's universities are translated into beneficial products and services.
PSU Inventor Portal
The formal process of working with IIP begins with an official disclosure of a project—it could be an invention, piece of software or other copyright work. The disclosure document will define exactly what research asset(s) we are working with. To begin a formal disclosure, visit our Inventor Portal.