The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) is announcing a call for submissions for the eighth annual UTRF Maturation Funding program. Proposals are due into your Research Office by close of business October 13, 2014. The program helps UT researchers further develop technologies that have potential for commercial success. Up to $15,000 in direct costs (read more)
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UT Receives NSF Award To Commercialize Discovery
KNOXVILLE — Jimmy Mays, a chemistry professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has developed a substance that promises to replace conventional rubber in many products with something that is stronger, greener and easier to recycle. Now he’s joining forces with the College of Business Administration’s Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation to turn his (read more)
UT Research Foundation Helps Faculty Start Businesses
By Hugh G. Willett, Knoxville News Sentinel KNOXVILLE – Over the last fiscal year the University of Tennessee Research Foundation has helped establish nine startup companies based on technology developed by university faculty. The number of startups is double the previous year and an indication that the program is meeting its goal of promoting and (read more)