The MCG Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development was created in the Spring of 2001 in order to have an efficient and effective mechanism for converting scientific discoveries into improved health care.  As a division of the Office of the Vice President for Research, our function is to identify and protect intellectual property generated from the rapidly growing research enterprise at MCG.

The intellectual property (inventions which might be patented or otherwise protected in order to secure commercial interest) can be licensed to able and interested firms, or it can serve as the focal point for creating a New Entrepreneurial Venture.  Faculty and Community entrepreneurs will be especially interested in the Life Sciences Business Development Center

We view the new office of having the following purpose:

VISION:  Establish the Medical College of Georgia as a leader in the movement of discoveries, data, and technologies out of the research laboratory and into the commercial sector.

GOAL:  Transform inventions into protected intellectual property that can become new products and services destined to improve health care and the quality of life for people of the state and for society in general, while fostering teaching, research and service at MCG.

The Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development (OTTED) is a resource for the inventive faculty, staff and students who choose to participate in the system. It also satisfies the obligation that the institution has as being a recipient of federal funding in light of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980.

The MCG Technology Transfer and Economic Development Office works closely with the MCG Office of Grants and Contracts, the Medical College of Georgia Research Institute, and the Georgia Medical Center Authority because of our mutual interests.

MCG personnel should consider this office as their resource for matters involving inventions and intellectual property. In a similar fashion, corporations and members of the business community should consider us as an easily identifiable entry point for accessing the talent and resources of the Medical College of Georgia.