Utah State University is a public funded agriculture university based in Logan, UT, USA (hereafter USU) with a student population of 28,000. Amongst its constituents are the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences and the Western Centre for Dairy Research. In recent years USU has received € 232m in research awards p.a. as well as filing 44 patents with 11 issued and a spin out of 10 companies over a 24 month period