Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) connects UM innovations to industry and the investment community. Services: Business Development & Licensing for UM Owned Inventions Start Up Assistance for UM Employees and coordination with the MS Small Business Development Center, Insight Park® and the Center for Innovation Entrepreneurship Intellectual Property Protection for UM Employee Inventions Patent Searches, Market Research, Background Searches for Proposals Federal Reporting for Sponsored Research Inventions Goals: Manage an efficient process that ensures research outcomes with commercial potential are protected and then commercialized into the private sector Increase the number of technologies licensed to commercial partners Facilitate the formation of companies based on UM technologies