Contact: Robbie Ward
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Joseph C. Fanguy is the new assistant director of Mississippi State's technology commercialization office.
The office is responsible for fostering an entrepreneurial environment among university students, staff and faculty, as well as identifying, protecting, marketing, and licensing intellectual properties developed at the university.
A licensing associate in the office since 2005, Fanguy now will continue to focus on identifying technologies and establishing industry collaborations for the commercialization of technology generated from MSU's research efforts. He also will help develop commercial strategies and negotiate licenses and collaborative research and development with off-campus entities.
He holds doctoral and master's degrees from MSU, and a bachelor's degree from Nicholls State University in Louisiana. All are in chemistry.
Before joining the technology commercialization office, Fanguy was an MSU research scientist at the former Diagnostic Instrumentation and Analysis Laboratory.
He has amassed considerable experience in evaluating the commercial potential of university inventions, developing marketing strategies for commercially viable technologies and negotiating commercialization agreements. Among them, he negotiated agreements with a global agribusiness company that led to a $175,000 licensing agreement. He also has worked with start-up companies supported by MSU's Thad Cochran Endowment for Entrepreneurship.
NEWS EDITORS/DIRECTORS: For more information, contact Dr. Fanguy at 662-325-0668 or jfanguy@research.msstate.edu.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.