Dr. Karpe's primary responsibility at ICE is to handle all day-to-day aspects of technology transfer and intellectual property management at Texas State University, as well as engage with and promote local, regional and national collaborations with industry, state and federal entities.
Before TXSTATE, Dr. Karpe worked as Director of the Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) at Rowan University, Associate Director of the Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) at Lehigh University and as Project & Technology Manager at North Carolina State University's OTT, all of which are located 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 21 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 Engg. degree from University of Bombay, MS degree from University of Georgia and Ph.D. in Technology Management from North Carolina State University.”