About

FSU Commercialization is responsible for transferring disclosed FSU Intellectual Property (IP) into the marketplace. This happens by licensing FSU technologies to existing or start-up companies to develop and market these early stage technologies. Click here to view our Mission Statement.

FSU Commercialization manages projects ranging from the hard sciences and engineering to music and theatre. This begins with invention and work disclosures. When disclosures show a potential for commercial success, the Commercialization staff seeks intellectual property protection (copyrights and patents) for the research and/or creative work, then identifies commercial partners to negotiate agreements for continued development.

FSU Commercialization is also the point of contact for outside organizations and individuals wanting to locate, for commercial or other public purposes, the skills, inventions, creative works and other resources of the FSU research community.

Our Mission

We contribute to FSU's achieving its goals for improving education, research and community service by creating partnerships between university researchers and outside organizations to develop products and knowledge for the benefit of society.

In support of its mission, FSU Commercialization has four core goals:

• Educate: Recognize innovative and creative faculty and student activity, inform them of opportunities to move their research results into use in society, and assist them in capturing internal and external development funding via partnerships for products and services based on their work.
• Communicate: With others, develop an effective program to document, and communicate the full value of faculty inventions, creative works, and know-how to society.
• Build the research base: Increase Research & Development revenues to FSU from public and private sources through funded research, technology licensing and other collaborative opportunities.
• Help create knowledge-based economic development: Through a program with a goal of accelerating the formation of companies spun out of FSU based on FSU creative work and research. Enhance economic development in the community, state and region by building strong ties between the public and private sectors.

Who Benefits from Commercialized Research?

1. The FSU Community
2. Industry
3. Tallahassee (Local Impact)
4. The State of Florida
5. The U.S. Government
6. The General Public

Why Do We Do It?

In 1980, the U.S. Congress passed the Bayh-Dole Act. This act mandated that any inventions arising from federally-sponsored research at a university shall be assigned to the university. In return, the university would attempt to commercialize the inventions commercialized for the benefit of the public. In 2005, the name of the office [est. 1996 as the Office of Technology Transfer] was changed to the Office of Commercialization.