The Foundation
Housed in the heart of the Texas Telecom Corridor at a pioneering university known for innovation, the Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) was created in April 2008 with a venture-experienced team and customer-oriented philosophy to move commercially viable inventions more effectively from the lab to the market.
New Focus
The OTC has streamlined the invention disclosure and evaluation processes, and, because of its internal capabilities and its seamless collaboration with the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UTD, it focuses on creating and incubating UTD-affiliated Startups.
Industry & Investor Friendly Philosophy
An industry-friendly mindset and a determined focus on “getting to yes” quickly are attitudes designed to expedite licensing, form industry-UTD alliances, and facilitate start-ups. One of our primary objectives: establish long-term, mutually beneficial relationships with inventors, industry partners and investors.
We exist to commercialize UT Dallas technology and impact both local and regional economic development.
And we do that by:
- Educating, advising and assisting inventors.
- Evaluating the commercial potential of UT Dallas inventions.
- Protecting intellectual property.
- Proactively facilitating the creation of UTD spin-off companies.
- Assisting in the licensing of commercially viable technologies.
- Communicating commercialization opportunities to investors and industry.
Technology Showcase
For information about technologies available for licensing as well as some of our most exciting recent discoveries, visit our Technology Showcase.
News and Events
June 12, 2009 - Positioning Your Company for Sustained and Profitable Growth
June 15-26, 2009 - Innovation Opportunity Camp for high schoolers
A team of students from the School of Management took top honors at the WBT-IC2 University Technology Commercialization Competition with their business plan for a type of computer technology that protects networks from hackers. [full article...]
UT Dallas researchers at the have demonstrated a fundamentally new type of artificial muscle, which can operate at extreme temperatures where no other artificial muscle can be used. [full article...]
UT Dallas researchers are working closely with five local
high-tech companies that will receive nearly $8 million from the latest round of awards from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. [full article...]
Two inventions by UT Dallas engineers will each receive $50,000 in funding from a Texas program designed to spur the commercialization of technology and products developed by UT System researchers. [full article ...]
Will Rosellini, cognition and neuroscience doctorate student, worked with the Office of Technology Commercialization to create the startup company MicroTransponder, which is developing a wireless neurostimulation solution for chronic pain sufferers. [full article...]
For more recent news and upcoming events, visit our News and Events page.
Updated: June 3, 2009
