Who was involved in creating the Intellectual Property Commercialization and Management Policy?
The effort to create the new policy was led by the Chancellor and the Office of Technology Commercialization and involved the Vice Chancellor for Technology Commercialization, CEOs from each System member, the Council of Principal Investigators, the Texas A&M University Research Counsel, the Vice President for Research and many individual researchers from across the A&M System who are actively involved in technology commercialization. What are the Objectives of the new Policy? The Texas A&M University System (System) is committed to teaching, research and public service. Research is one of the most important and rewarding aspects of the educational process, regularly leading to the development of new ideas, discoveries and technologies with the potential to benefit the public at large. It was, therefore, determined that a new intellectual property policy be written to better assure that the new ideas, discoveries and technologies arising from research conducted as a part of the educati