Mississippi State University is a public land-grant research university in Starkville whose commercialization path runs through agriculture, forestry, veterinary medicine, and engineering, with a technology office that has been licensing inventions since the 1990s.
Research expenditures were $320 million in fiscal year 2024, more than half of the research spending reported by Mississippi higher-education institutions that year.
Commercialization runs through the Office of Technology Management. Faculty, staff, and students disclose inventions, software, and creative works. A licensing associate screens technical readiness, market potential, and intellectual-property strength, then markets technologies that clear that review. If no licensee appears within a year, most technologies return to the inventor. Promising unlicensed work can be held in the patent portfolio for further marketing or research.
- Portfolio
More than 250 active technologies, including 268 patents and protections, 4 plant-variety certificates, 16 registered trademarks, and 25 registered copyrights. The portfolio is concentrated in forestry, engineering, and agriculture, with additional work in the physical and life sciences, veterinary medicine, and software for energy, geospatial, biotechnology, and automotive uses. - Since 1997
Through fiscal year 2023, the office recorded 797 disclosures, 268 patents issued, 207 licenses and options, and 55 startups.
Investors and founders can reach the Office of Technology Management through the university’s research and economic development office, led by Julie Jordan, vice president for research and economic development.
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