{"id":53,"date":"2010-06-22T17:21:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T17:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/tto\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2025-08-19T17:55:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:55:49","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/tto\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Our Mission<\/h2>\n<p style=\"\">Provide quality assistance and increase opportunities for Marshall University inventors and investors in the commercialization of ideas<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">Expand tech transfer education available to Marshall students, faculty and the public<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">Increase\u00a0the flow of external funding to the university for research leading to new commercial products and services<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">Establish Marshall University as a primary engine for fostering high-tech economic development in the region<\/p>\n<h2>What We Do<\/h2>\n<p style=\"\">Facilitate the invention disclosure process, material transfer, and license negotiation<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">Protect university technologies and promote commercialization<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Connect industry partners with research expertise<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">Collect and disburse royalties from licenses<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">Develop technical and market assessments<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">Market university technologies to potential licensees and industry partners to advance to market<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">Provide business assistance to startup companies<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/tto\/contact\/staff-directory\/\">Staff Directory<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"\">Please feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/tto\/contact\">contact us<\/a> if we can be of any assistance. We look forward to working with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Mission Provide quality assistance and increase opportunities for Marshall University inventors and investors in the commercialization of ideas Expand tech transfer education available to Marshall students, faculty and the public Increase\u00a0the flow of external funding to the university for research leading to new commercial products and services Establish Marshall University as a primary engine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar-right.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-53","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/tto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/tto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/tto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/tto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/tto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/tto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/tto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/tto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/tto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}