Innovations & Conversations Featuring Kirsten Leute

Join Ohio State’s Technology Commercialization team for lunch at the upcoming Innovations & Conversations featuring Kirsten Leute, Senior Vice President for University Relations at Osage University Partners. The luncheon event will be held from noon – 1 p.m. on June 27 in the Faculty Club North Dining Room.

Osage is a venture capital fund that invests in startups out of academic institutions. Luete is responsible for relationships with more than 90 OUP academic partner universities. She previously worked at Stanford University’s Office of Technology Licensing, handing a diverse caseload of biotechnology and high technology inventions. She also has experience with software, trademark and copyright licensing. She published articles on technology transfer in the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology, Community Genetics and Medical Innovation and Business and co-wrote a chapter on bringing university technology to the private sector in The Creative Enterprise. She earned her biology degree from Wellesley College and her MBA from Santa Clara University concentrating in international business and management of technology and innovation. Leute is also a registered patent agent.

Innovations & Conversations is a quarterly, informal gathering for faculty to network with business, technology commercialization and industry partners. Conversations focus on the cycle of innovation from discovery to marketplace. For more information, contact Tracy Preston.

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