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...incorporating entrepreneur-ready technologies and innovations into your company's existing intellectual property portfolio to enhance a product line or help launch a new one?
The University of Rochester Offices of Technology Transfer have a rich portfolio of UR research achievements to share with you.
...co-sponsoring University research projects that could result in novel products for your company?
The Center for Emerging & Innovative Sciences (CEIS) acts as a matchmaker. It identifies areas where the interests of University researchers intersect with industry corporate partners to establish mutually beneficial relationships, primarily in optics, photonics, and imaging. These partnerships support the regional cluster of companies in those industries, and in biomedical, energy, and electronics.
The Center for Medical Technology and Innovation connects biomedical device companies with Medical Center faculty and engineering faculty and students to develop new lines of medical equipment and other products geared to the realities of a clinical setting.
...establishing a close relationship with faculty and students of the nation’s premier school of optics?
Companies participating in The Industrial Associates program of The Institute of Optics help support the Institute’s research programs, and in return enjoy twice-yearly technical meetings, exclusive job-posting and student interview opportunities, and tuition-free seats at Institute summer school short-courses.
...gaining access to a state-of-the-art nanofabrication clean room and specialized tools?
The University of Rochester Integrated Nanosystems Center (URnano) offers businesses access to a unique set of nanofabrication tools for lithography, deposition, etch and characterization to help translate research into viable, innovative solutions. Training is included. Contact the director of URnano, professor Nick Bigelow, for more information.
...finding out more about opportunities for research collaboration between your company and the University?
The University’s Office of Research Alliances provides a link between the private sector, government research agencies, other academic institutions and researchers at the UR. The best way to get a comprehensive look at the University of Rochester research strengths, in your particular areas of interest, is to have an initial disussion and schedule a site visit. ORA will work with you to develop a customized and productive agenda.
While universities have been generating new knowledge for centuries, the systematic process of commercializing new ideas can be traced to the passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980. The law was founded on the principal that ideas created with taxpayer support should ultimately benefit society and its citizens. From this concept, the sophisticated technology transfer functions now common in research universities emerged.
Since the law’s passage, the commercialization of academic innovation has accelerated. Universities have spawned more than 7,000 companies, more than 6,200 licensed products, more than 160 new therapeutic drugs, and generated hundreds of thousands of jobs. Publicly funded research is responsible for such discoveries as hollow optical fibers, nicotine patches, the code that powers Google, numerous life-saving vaccines, cell phone technologies, and the entire biomedical industrial sector. According to a former president of NASDAQ, some 30 percent of that index’s total value is rooted in federally funded, university-based innovation.
The University of Rochester/Technology Commercialization Annual Report Fiscal Year 2012
