Links to related OSU Centers
AgBiosciences Innovation Grant (AGIB)
Program
The AgBiosciences Innovation Grant Program
was designed to accomplish the overall goal of transforming discovery and
knowledge into innovations that have positive economic, social, and
environmental impacts that contribute to local and state economies and promote
an entrepreneurial culture within the agbioscience university setting.
Centers supported with funds from the AGIB Program:
Center for Innovation-Based Enterprise (CIBE)
The Center for Innovation-Based Enterprise provides research and guidance on
commercialization, entrepreneurship, contract design, finance, marketing, and
risk management for innovation-based and start-up agbioscience enterprises.
The Ohio BioProducts Innovation Center (OBIC)
The Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center is a new research
initiative that integrates academia and industry toward the development of
renewable specialty chemicals, polymers/plastics and advanced materials.
Center for Food Safety and Agrosecurity (CFSA)
The Center for Food Safety and Agrosecurity
proposes to bring innovative advances in food safety to commercial
applications. The current focus of this group is on the US Egg Safety Action
Plan which calls for complete eradication of Salmonella from eggs by the year
2010. In addition, this group is looking at the development of tamper proof
caps for food packages and rapid test diagnostics of food borne pathogens.
Center for Diagnostic Assays (CDA)
The Center for Diagnostic Assays develops and
validates animal and plant pathogen diagnostic assays. The scientists supporting
this center have expertise in the development of molecular-based diagnostic
assays and several of these are already routinely being used or marketed.
Center for Advanced Functional Food Research and Entrepreneurship (CAFFRE)
Functional foods are defined as products providing health benefits beyond
their contribution to nutrient requirements and can significantly contribute to
mitigating disease. Linking nutrition, health and disease prevention has
produced enormous commercial opportunities targeted towards health promotion and
enhancement as well as the prevention and treatment of specific diseases.
Center for Urban Environment and Economic Development (CUEED)
This center
focuses on the development and commercialization of a series of new organic and
biological products to meet the fertility, pest control, and pollution
mitigation needs of urbanized landscapes.
Other OSU Centers and Programs:
Food and Agricultural Technology
Commercialization and Economic Development Program (ATECH)
ATECH provides expertise in marketing, business development, intellectual
property management and technology transfer. The program works to foster and
accelerate economic development, with a primary focus on food, agricultural,
environmental and life science technologies.
Center for Advanced Processing and
Packaging Studies (CAPPS)
CAPPS is a multi-university center designed to enhance safety and quality of
aseptic and extended shelf-life products, to characterize emerging, aseptic and
extended shelf-life processes, and to assure the integrity and functionality of
aseptic and extended shelf-life packaging.
Center for Multifunctional Polymer Nanomaterials and Devices (CMPND)
CMPND ("compound") is a newly formed research and commercialization partnership
in polymer nanotechnology centered at The Ohio State University in conjunction
with the University of Akron and University of Dayton. CMPND
develops manufacturing protocols and nanostructures for near-term industrial
polymeric nanocomposites, emerging polymer photonic components and devices, and
more futuristic biomedical devices and systems with nanoscale functions.
Center for Resilience
The Center for Resilience is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated
to improving the resilience of industrial systems. The broad scope includes the
Manufacturing, Transportation, Energy, Construction, Agribusiness, and Retail
industries.
Food Industries Center,
Department of Food Science & Technology
The Center provides pilot plant
facilities and support for education, research and product development for
faculty, students and food production companies.
The Center for
Entrepreneurship, Fischer College of Business
The Center supports academic research, education and community engagement in
entrepreneurship.
Center for Innovation-Based Enterprise, Agricultural, Environmental, & Development Economics
103 Agricultural Administration Building, 2120 Fyffe Road, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA |