Office of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships

About the Office of Innovation & Strategic Partnerships

The Office of Innovation & Strategic Partnerships (OISP) supports UT San Antonio faculty and researchers in advancing discoveries toward real-world impact. Through education, strategic guidance, and collaborative partnerships, OISP helps translate innovation into solutions that improve lives.

Our Mission

The Office of Innovation & Strategic Partnerships supports UT San Antonio faculty and researchers in advancing innovations from discovery toward impact.

By emphasizing early market insight, experiential education, and collaborative partnerships, OISP helps innovators make informed decisions about commercialization pathways that create value beyond the university.

Our Core Values

Discover — Identifying promising innovations and unmet needs
Protect — Safeguarding intellectual property and research assets
Develop — Advancing innovations through education and guidance
Execute — Supporting pathways to commercialization
Impact — Creating real-world outcomes that improve lives

These values guide our work and decision-making across all programs.

Our Approach

OISP applies a Market-First approach to commercialization — emphasizing early market insight, customer discovery, and value validation to guide innovation development.

This approach helps faculty align research strengths with unmet needs, prioritize opportunities with the greatest potential, and pursue commercialization pathways grounded in evidence rather than assumption.

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Our Performance

The University of Texas System Dashboard shows revenue from intellectual property, licenses and options executed, new invention disclosures, startup companies formed and US Patents from UT Health San Antonio, as well as for each UT System academic institution.

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UT San Antonio Issued Patents

UT San Antonio

U.S. Issued Patents

January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025

Combined Academic & Health Campus

At UT San Antonio’s Office of Innovation & Strategic Partnerships, our mission is to help translate research into real-world impact.

We’re proud to highlight the patents issued in 2025 to UT San Antonio innovators — a reflection of the groundbreaking work happening across our university. These issued patents represent technologies moving closer to commercialization, industry partnership, and meaningful societal impact.