Creating opportunities for Oregonians
- Per research dollar, the University of Oregon is one of the top research universities in the nation for translating basic discoveries into practical applications.
- The amount of money generated from technology transfer has grown more than twenty-fold over the last eight years, from $313,000 in FY2000 to more than $6.8 million in FY2008 -- the university’s thirteenth consecutive record year.
- UO research has generated ninety-one U.S. patents and 263 technology out-license agreements since 1992.
- UO researchers disclosed 126 new inventions since FY2006 Of the U.S. patents issued to the UO since 2001, 92 percent (twenty-four of twenty-six) have been optioned or licensed to private-sector firms.
- UO’s innovation and entrepreneurship programs continue to spin off promising new companies with connection to UO faculty members, students, and research. These new ventures include Perpetua Power Source Technologies Inc., MitoSciences Inc., Avant Assessment LLC, Dune Sciences LLC, FloraGenex Inc., Insignia Health LLC, Life Technologies LLC, Electrical Geodesics Inc., ParaTools Inc., and Kaibridge Inc.
- The university secured $681.7 million in research awards between FY2000 and FY2008.
