The Office, located in Suite 827 on the 8th
Floor of the Library, Administration, and Resource Center at 433 Bolivar
Street, is staffed by James Hardy,
Director and Deanna Vandiver,
Assistant Director.The primary responsibility of the Office of Technology
Development is to facilitate the research enterprise. Specifically, we
assist faculty, staff, and students whose research
leads to inventions with the process of transferring
significant novel intellectual property from the laboratory to the market
place.
Inventors are strongly encouraged to disclose inventions to the Office of
Technology Development before submitting manuscripts for publishing.
Academic technology transfer serves to:
- Facilitate the commercialization of research results for the public
good
- Reward, retain, and recruit faculty
- Induce closer ties to industry
- Generate income and promote economic growth
The major steps in technology transfer are: disclosure of
inventions; evaluation and marketing; patent
prosecution; finding a licensee, negotiation of license agreements; and management
of active licenses.
Additionally, we are charged with establishing and enabling the
relationships necessary for certain aspects of research and collaboration to
occur, including Material Transfer Agreements, Confidential Disclosure
Agreements, and Inter-Institutional Agreements.
We are committed to encouraging
economic development for the New
Orleans region and the State of Louisiana. We encourage inventors and industry
to contact us regarding opportunities for LSUHSC-NO technology.
