OSU setting program records
OSU setting program records
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Published: April 20, 2008
Oklahoma State University is setting records in research.
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‘Banner year' continues
"It has been a banner year for OSU in sponsored programs and research,” said OSU Research and Technology Transfer Vice President Stephen McKeever. "The totals for sponsored program awards for fiscal year 2007 are the highest in OSU history. It's difficult to identify any one particular initiative that produced this result, but we can certainly attribute much of it to our extremely talented faculty and hard-working staff, and efforts by the university to not only encourage faculty to conduct research, but also make it easier for them to do so.”
OSU research expenditures per faculty member have been on the rise for the past decade, peaking in 2007.
And last year for the first time, OSU achieved new records in technology transfer, including exceeding, for the first time, the Association of University Technology Managers' national average for dollars spent versus inventions/intellectual property disclosure.
"The national average, according to AUTM statistics, is that for every $2.4 million a university spends on research, there should be one invention,” McKeever said. "OSU had never reached the national average until this year when we achieved a disclosure for every $2.3 million spent, which is actually a little better than the national average.”
OSU had 30 licenses yielding income in 2007 and, for the second consecutive year, received more than $1 million in license income.
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