Focus on and Support for Entrepreneurship: An Interview with Ron Huss
This December marks Ron Huss’s 20th anniversary working in the Office of Technology Management. Huss has been managing the office since 2000, and in 2008, he was promoted to Associate Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer, where he provides leadership of Penn State’s vast intellectual-property assets, which comprises thousands of patents, patent applications, copyrights, and other IP.
Huss earned his bachelor of arts degree in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Before his tenure at Penn State, Huss worked in grant management, and even worked on beer fermentation from a biochemistry standpoint.
Since Huss began working with university technology management, there has been a big shift in the perspective on entrepreneurship. We caught up with Ron to get his thoughts on Invent Penn State and its effect on entrepreneurship in our community.
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