Tech Transfer

Arizona Universities with Technologies Available for Commercialization

Intellectual property and commercialization opportunities exist at Arizona’s universities, additional information can be found at:

A searchable database of R&D activity at Arizona's universities and available technologies may be found at:

  • Arizona State University: Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE) works with university inventors and industry to transform scientific progress into products and services. Arizona Technology Enterprises transfers technologies invented at ASU to the private sector by mining university research, prosecuting patents, negotiating licenses, and marketing inventions. For further information click on AzTE’s available technology portfolios and spinout ventures.
  • University of Arizona:  The Office of Technology Transfer assists faculty with intellectual property development, facilitates relationships with commercial partners, and helps to create strategies to bring inventions and discoveries to market. Click to here toaccess UA technologies and other research assets available to organizations and individuals for development, application and societal benefit. 

Arizona is also home to three research parks:

  • The ASU Research Park, a 324-acre business and industrial park, is committed to facilitate technology transfer through university-industry research relationships, and serves to further its development as a nationally recognized Carnegie Foundation Research I Institute. Its mission is to enhance Arizona's high value research based economic development and to build ASU's capacity to educate and advance knowledge.
     
  • The University of Arizona Science and Technology Park offers a unique environment dedicated to the transfer of technology from the laboratory to the marketplace. The Tech park is home to forty companies and business organizations in industries such as biotechnology, optics, aerospace, border security technology, solar, and information technology.  Park tenants include Five Fortune 500 companies, IBM, Raytheon, Canon USA, Citigroup and General Dynamics as well as several emerging high tech companies including NP Photonics, Modavox and DILAS Diode Laser.  UA South, a branch campus of the University of Arizona, is also located at the Park.  The Tech Park contributes nearly $2.5 billion annually to Pima County’s economy and is one of the region’s largest employment centers employing more than 7,000 people.  The Tech Park is comprised of almost two million square feet of developed space located on 1,345 acres of land and has been recognized as one of the premier university research parks in North America.
     
  • The University of Arizona BioPark is comprised of 65 acres of land located at 36th Street and Kino Parkway. The University is developing the Bio Park at The Bridges along with its partners KB Home, Lennar Homes and Eastbourne Properties, around the concept of Live, Learn, Work, and Play. The UA BioPark will be at the forefront of urban design and development and will meet the most demanding needs of high technology companies. The Park provides easy access to I-10, the Tucson International Airport, downtown Tucson and The University of Arizona. The park is located near several hospitals and research centers including UPH Kino Community Hospital, Veterans Administration Regional Center, Arizona Health Sciences Center, Arizona Cancer Center, and BIO5 Institute. Thoughtfully master planned, the UA BioPark will provide an engaging environment that supports the “third place of science” with many opportunities through a technology high school, a hotel and conference center, student and faculty housing and the presence of a top ranked research university.

Federal Laboratories with Technologies Available for Commercializationn

Other Technology Licensing

  • Honeywell  
  • HP - HP's Intellectual Property Licensing group is responsible for licensing HP's diverse IP portfolio, including technology, patents,brand, trademarks and copyrights.
  • IBM Intellectual Property & Licensing - In 2007, IBM received 3,125 U.S. patents from the USPTO. This is the fifteenth consecutive year that IBM has received more US patents than any other company in the world. In addition to delivering these innovations through its products and services, IBM maintains an active patent and technology licensing program       
  • Northrop Grumman       
  • World Business Council for Sustainable Development   - The Eco-Patent Commons is an initiative to create a collection of patents on technology that directly or indirectly protects the environment. The patents will be pledged by companies and other intellectual property rights holders and made available to anyone free of charge.
  • TechTransferOnline.com, a database of technologies is available for free searches.
  • iBridge Networks - is a program of the Kauffman Innovation Network, Inc., an initiative of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.  iBridge Network aims to expand the number and scope of collaborations built around university research - a critical step in fostering entrepreneurial ventures that convert discoveries to applications.