The Chronicle: 2002 Technology Transfer: Number of start-up companies formed per $1-million spending on research

Tech-Transfer Scorecard

These are the highest-ranking institutions in various measures of performance in technology transfer. See Note for additional information.

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Number of start-up companies formed per $10-million spending on research
RANK	INSTITUTION	NUMBER
1	Brigham Young U	1.08
2	East Carolina U	0.52
3	California Institute of Technology	0.49
4	Kent State U	0.46
5	U of Utah	0.38
6	Stanford U	0.32
7	Arizona State U	0.30
8	U of South Florida	0.30
9	Thomas Jefferson U	0.28
10	U of Kentucky Research Foundation	0.27
11	U of Georgia	0.26
12	U of Virginia Patents Foundation	0.25
13	Rutgers U	0.25
14	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	0.25
15	New York Medical College	0.25
16	Brown U Research Foundation	0.24
17	U of Alabama at Birmingham	0.24
18	Brandeis U	0.24
19	Iowa State U	0.24
20	Kansas State U Research Foundation	0.23
21	Carnegie Mellon U	0.22
22	New Jersey Institute of Technology	0.21
23	U of South Alabama	0.20
24	U of Cincinnati	0.20
25	U of Oregon	0.19
26	U of Akron	0.19
27	San Diego State U	0.19
28	U of Minnesota	0.18
29	U of Nebraska at Lincoln	0.17
30	Purdue Research Foundation	0.17
31	Washington Research Foundation, U of Washington	0.17
32	Columbia U	0.17
33	Georgia Institute of Technology	0.17
34	Princeton U	0.16
35	Michigan Technological U	0.16
36	U of Southern California	0.16
37	Colorado State U	0.15
38	Dartmouth College	0.15
39	Wake Forest U	0.15
40	Tufts U	0.14
41	U of Houston	0.14
42	Emory U	0.13
43	Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties	0.13
44	State U of New York Research Foundation	0.13
45	Vanderbilt U	0.13
46	North Carolina State U	0.13
47	New York U	0.13
48	Mississippi State U	0.13
49	Pennsylvania State U	0.13
50	U of Pittsburgh	0.12
51	Temple U	0.12
52	U of Michigan	0.12
53	Ohio U	0.12
54	U of Louisville	0.12
55	U of Pennsylvania	0.11
56	Southern Illinois U at Carbondale	0.11
57	Yale U	0.11
58	U of Texas at Austin	0.11
59	Syracuse U	0.11
60	U of New Mexico Science & Technology Corp	0.11
61	U of Kansas	0.10
62	U of Chicago, ARCH Development Corp	0.10
63	Florida State U	0.10
64	U of Montana	0.10
65	U of Rhode Island	0.10
66	U of Delaware	0.10
67	U of Florida	0.10
68	U of Iowa Research Foundation	0.10
69	Cornell Research Foundation	0.10
70	U of California System	0.09
71	U of Connecticut	0.09
72	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, U of Wisconsin, Madison	0.09
73	Oregon State U	0.09
74	Michigan State U	0.09
75	U of Maryland at College Park	0.09
76	U of Maryland at Baltimore	0.08
77	U of Tennessee Research Corp.	0.08
78	Montana State U	0.08
79	U of Massachusetts	0.08
80	U of Arizona	0.08
81	Northwestern U	0.08
82	Baylor College of Medicine	0.07
83	U of Illinois, Chicago and Urbana-Champaign	0.07
84	Washington U in St. Louis	0.07
85	U of Arkansas at Fayetteville	0.06
86	Clemson U	0.06
87	Texas A&M U System	0.06
88	U of Maine	0.06
89	Case Western Reserve U	0.06
90	U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	0.06
91	Johns Hopkins U	0.06
92	Indiana U (Advanced Research Technology Institute)	0.05
93	U of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	0.05
94	U of Dayton	0.05
95	U of Miami	0.05
96	Idaho Research Foundation, U of Idaho	0.05
97	Duke U	0.05
98	Wayne State U	0.04
99	Oregon Health Sciences U	0.04
100	U of Rochester	0.04
101	Harvard U	0.04
102	Ohio State U	0.03
103	Auburn U	0.02
104	Tulane U	0.02
105	Lehigh U	0.00
106	Loyola U Medical Center (Ill)	0.00
107	Medical College of Ohio	0.00
108	New Mexico State U	0.00
109	North Dakota State U	0.00
110	Oklahoma State U	0.00
111	U of Hawaii	0.00
112	U of Maryland-Baltimore County	0.00
113	U of New Hampshire	0.00
114	U of New Orleans	0.00
115	U of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	0.00
116	U of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	0.00
117	Wright State U	0.00

With their relatively low levels of spending on research, some institutions stand out in this comparison, even though they have formed few start-up companies. East Carolina has created two: one in telemedicine, the other in biotechnology, developing a treatment for asthma. BYU has formed eight.

Number of inventions disclosed per $1-million spending on research

Number of U.S. patent applications filed per $1-million spending on research

Licenses and options executed relative to number of inventions disclosed

Licensing income per dollar of research spending

Average income per license

Universities that formed the most start-up companies

Number of start-up companies formed per $10-million spending on research

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Browseable lists of licensing revenues and patent activity at universities, 1998-2000

SOURCE: Chronicle analysis
Research assistance by Matthew Bassow, Anne Millar Wiebe, and Seth Perry

Note: Data used for these charts come from the five most recent annual surveys conducted by the Association of University Technology Managers and cover 1996 through 2000. Only institutions that reported data in at least four of the five years were included. The charts are intended as a five-year snapshot, but in some cases, the activities in years not included in the data may affect the ratios. For example, a license executed in 1997 could have been based on a disclosure from 1994. An institution's ratios could also be affected if the surveys did not contain information for all categories in all years.