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The University of Texas System established the Office of Research and Technology Transfer to encourage and facilitate large-scale research collaborations among UT institutions, with other campuses, and with private industry partners. The goal of these collaborations is to strengthen the research itself and to permit communities, the state, business, and industry to gain more from university research and education. This office is also responsible for developing special research opportunities for UT System institutions through collaborations with federal labs.
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 It's hard to calculate the number of ways in which university discoveries impact our everyday lives. From cell phones to skyscrapers to flat panel televisions, technologies developed on university campuses have profoundly changed the way we work, live and play. Add to that groundbreaking advancements in medicine, national security, environmental protection, alternative energy and economic development and we start to scratch the surface of just how vital university research and development are to the future of Texas, the nation and the world. But talk to a university researcher or scientist and they'll tell you the road from research to invention to realized commercial product is paved with difficult milestones. Investors are taking fewer risks in today's economic climate," says Cathy Swain, assistant vice chancellor for commercial development in the Office of Research and Technology Transfer at The University of Texas System. "This amplifies an existing funding gap between basic research and marketable products." See complete article.
See Office of Research & Techn. Transf. report on Ignite Texas.
The University of Texas System’s Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention program (STARs) was created to help UT institutions attract the nation’s strongest researchers in health, mathematics, computer sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences, engineering and technology. So far, all indications are that it’s doing just that. STARs was formed in August 2004, when the UT System Board of Regents allocated $60 million in Library, Equipment, Repair and Renovation (LERR) funds to help induce faculty members to stay at or come to the UT System to do their research. Since LERR funds can only be applied toward capital expenditures, this money is used to help purchase state-of-the-art research equipment and to make necessary laboratory renovations. Of the $60 million, $32.45 million went to the Office of Academic Affairs to be awarded to UT academic institutions on both a competitive and non-competitive basis; the balance went to UT medical institutions. See complete articles.
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Note from the Chancellor
81st Legislative Session Update
As the 81'st Regular Session of the Texas Legislature comes to a close, see Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D.'s message as he outlines the bright horizon for higher education, research and economic development of Texas. |
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