For the past nine years, the University of Tennessee Research Foundation’s internship program has offered valuable career experience to UT law students, graduate students, and post-doctoral researchers interested in the commercialization process of innovations from the University of Tennessee. This year, the program has gone virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Interns in UTRF’s Commercialization (read more)
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UTRF Inventor Spotlight: Dr. Feng-Yuan Zhang
Making Electrolysis More Affordable and Efficient With zero carbon emissions, hydrogen is a promising alternative fuel and energy storage medium that may help power more vehicles, provide electricity, reduce carbon dioxide to high-value products, produce next-generation ammonia, and heat buildings in the movement toward a sustainable future. There’s just one catch: though hydrogen use doesn’t (read more)
Path to Market: New License for a UTIA Technology to a Fight Billion-Dollar Agricultural Crisis
Obtaining a commercial license with an industry partner doesn’t happen overnight. The journey of bringing a technology from initial discovery to the marketplace can be a long and challenging process. Industry landscape changes constantly, and companies consistently raise the bar on the amount of data and de-risking they require prior to licensing. Commercialization occurs in (read more)