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Individual Conflict of Interest
The ORP has a comprehensive COI Program to review and manage all potential financial conflicts of interest in a manner that is consistent throughout the University.
Increasingly, Penn State researchers have financial interests and ties outside the University, many of which have proven to be excellent partnerships for translating academic research into technologies which benefit the public. However, those ties may create a Conflict of Interest (“COI”) due to the potential for bias, or a perception of bias, in the research being conducted. The challenge for Penn State researchers today, then, is to meet increased scrutiny while balancing and managing their outside interests with their Penn State research and other scholarly activities.
