Yatin Karpe

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ABOUT YATIN KARPE

Yatin S. Karpe, Ph.D. is AVP of the Office of Innovation, Commercialization & Engagement (IC & E) at Texas State University (TXST), located at the Star Park in San Marcos, Texas, USA. Dr. Karpe’s primary responsibility at IC & E is to handle all day-to-day aspects of innovation, commercialization, technology transfer, intellectual property management and external engagement at TXST, as well as engage with and promote local, regional and national/international collaborations with industry, state and federal entities. Before TXST, Dr. Karpe worked as Director of the Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) at Rowan University, Associate Director of Lehigh University and as Project & Technology Manager at North Carolina State University’s OTT, all in USA. As a result, Dr. Karpe has experience of both, large and small, as well as public and private university OTT’s. He has over 24 years of combined experience (primarily in small office) managing all aspects of technology transfer, intellectual property, innovation management, licensing, commercialization, venture development, entrepreneurship and external engagement in an academic environment. In addition, Dr. Karpe is actively involved in various regional, national and international collaborations, partnership and economic development initiatives. Dr. Karpe is a cabinet/advisory/planning member of several groups such as the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), Licensing Executive Society (LES), University Industry Innovation Network (UIIN), International Conference of Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Regional Development (ICEIRD), World Intellectual Property Forum (WIPF), serving on several different committees. Dr. Karpe obtained his BS Engineering degree from University of Bombay, MS degree from University of Georgia and Ph.D. in Technology Management from North Carolina State University.