MSU Technologies

The formation of the Office of MSU Technologies represents an important step in the evolution of intellectual property management and technology commercialization at Michigan State University and comes at a critical time, as MSU continues to play an increasing role in the effort to diversify and improve the Michigan economy. While we work to transfer a wide range of MSU intellectual property to the marketplace, we also hope to provide MSU researchers with feedback from the marketplace that will assist them in performing research of high quality and high impact.

Over the next 6 to 12 months, we will undertake a two-pronged approach as we create this new office and implement a new way of doing business. First, we will increase and improve our internal capabilities by hiring approximately a dozen new staff members. The majority of these new hires represent new capability in the department. Special attention will be paid to training the staff and building infrastructure to insure the office is capable of meeting the significant needs of MSU’s growing research enterprise. Second, working with expert external consultants, we will undertake a comprehensive review of MSU’s portfolio of existing technologies and actively market those technologies found to have commercial potential.

We look forward to working with our internal and external constituents to create “win-win” technology commercialization opportunities, and we welcome your inquiries.

Michael R. Poterala, Executive Director, MSU Technologies
Assistant Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies