The office is a catalyst for developing new opportunities in the university community that enables Temple to reach its goals for achieving excellence in research, education and service. Its diverse activities include fostering new multidisciplinary research initiatives and nurturing technology related relationships and partnerships with industry and government. It assists companies in identifying and accessing Temple faculty expertise and research centers, and works to foster University-industry research partnerships. Personal attention is given to company representatives to assess their technical needs and facilitate linkages to appropriate Temple resources.

Temple is well equipped to support the competitive position of firms and implement more efficient processes through the application of University expertise and developed technologies.