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UT RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Technology Transfer

Everything starts with the inventors working in labs, clinics, greenhouses, offices and classrooms throughout UT. From our offices in Knoxville and Memphis, the UT Research Foundation (UTRF) serves as a bridge between these researchers and industry, entrepreneurs and investors. UTRF facilitates the transfer of inventions to the private sector, providing public benefit of new products which are the result of academic-research funding. This creates new jobs and new companies that boost the economy, and it also produces income for the inventors and the university.

The UTRF Office of Technology Transfer:

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DID YOU KNOW?

In the past year, UTRF signed 17 new licenses and worked with the inventors to found four new companies. We also collected more than $1.5 million in royalties, invested more than $700,000 in protecting the university's intellectual property, received 19 new U.S. patents and managed 92 new inventions.