The University of Tennessee Research Foundation regularly meets with researchers to promote a culture of commercialization and explore the practical applications of UT intellectual property. UTRF is in the business of science. Our mandate is to take complex tech from inventors and translate it into products. Sometimes, patents are the best pathway and other times, (read more)
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UTRF leadership at UTHSC supporting the graduate entrepreneurial ecosystem
One of the University of Tennessee Research Foundation’s four key mission areas is encouraging an entrepreneurial culture across the UT System. At the UT Health Science Center, two UTRF team members support this mission by teaching the next generation of entrepreneurs in the redesigned “Entrepreneurship in Pharm/Biomedical Science” graduate course, listed as PHAC 832 and (read more)
Knoxville startup ThermaMatrix developing cost-effective, non-destructive solutions for manufacturers
Ryan Spencer, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of ThermaMatrix, has known he wanted to engineer since high school. His old truck had broken down, and instead of taking it to the auto repair shop and spending thousands of dollars he did not have as a teenager, he decided to buy the parts and fix the (read more)