The Chronicle: 2002 Technology Transfer: Average income per license

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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Average income per license
RANK	INSTITUTION	AMOUNT
1	Florida State U	$3,921,771.55
2	Clemson U	$520,556.05
3	Michigan State U	$513,122.69
4	Carnegie Mellon U	$416,762.74
5	Columbia U	$389,908.23
6	Yale U	$388,264.25
7	U of Florida	$360,537.36
8	Tulane U	$346,860.77
9	Dartmouth College	$289,568.43
10	New York U	$266,130.91
11	Emory U	$255,192.22
12	U of Rochester	$242,122.80
13	U of Cincinnati	$229,626.95
14	U of Kentucky Research Foundation	$203,301.71
15	California Institute of Technology	$189,638.39
16	Wake Forest U	$174,695.00
17	U of California System	$163,070.52
18	Ohio U	$159,292.29
19	U of Pennsylvania	$150,667.25
20	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, U of Wisconsin, Madison	$122,508.97
21	U of Massachusetts	$116,354.17
22	U of Dayton	$112,764.88
23	Stanford U	$108,826.19
24	U of Rhode Island	$107,078.84
25	U of Chicago, ARCH Development Corp	$106,328.96
26	U of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	$105,036.87
27	Washington Research Foundation, U of Washington	$97,824.42
28	U of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	$86,755.46
29	State U of New York Research Foundation	$83,646.65
30	Princeton U	$79,333.33
31	North Carolina State U	$78,607.89
32	Baylor College of Medicine	$72,940.25
33	Brown U Research Foundation	$69,243.56
34	U of Texas at Austin	$64,766.14
35	Brigham Young U	$63,284.80
36	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$62,958.01
37	U of Virginia Patents Foundation	$62,938.58
38	Arizona State U	$59,340.08
39	Johns Hopkins U	$57,932.46
40	U of Georgia	$57,129.21
41	Harvard U	$57,104.76
42	Ohio State U	$56,813.51
43	U of Houston	$56,693.33
44	U of Minnesota	$54,147.28
45	U of Alabama at Birmingham	$52,405.25
46	U of Pittsburgh	$51,523.66
47	U of Connecticut	$49,679.69
48	Washington U in St. Louis	$49,593.60
49	U of Arkansas at Fayetteville	$48,775.76
50	U of New Mexico Science & Technology Corp	$47,235.03
51	Case Western Reserve U	$46,524.44
52	U of Utah	$44,919.79
53	Loyola U Medical Center (Ill)	$44,895.61
54	Temple U	$44,840.04
55	U of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	$44,358.17
56	U of Nebraska at Lincoln	$43,250.16
57	Kent State U	$40,304.04
58	Duke U	$39,667.51
59	Thomas Jefferson U	$39,255.55
60	U of Tennessee Research Corp.	$38,185.34
61	U of South Alabama	$37,659.06
62	U of Michigan	$36,968.83
63	U of Illinois, Chicago and Urbana-Champaign	$36,964.86
64	Georgia Institute of Technology	$36,728.15
65	U of Iowa Research Foundation	$36,604.57
66	Northwestern U	$36,522.43
67	Rutgers U	$35,995.38
68	U of Hawaii	$33,942.65
69	North Dakota State U	$32,885.56
70	Wayne State U	$32,547.05
71	Auburn U	$32,147.93
72	Texas A&M U System	$31,567.85
73	Indiana U (Advanced Research Technology Institute)	$29,238.86
74	U of South Florida	$28,846.67
75	Oklahoma State U	$27,384.08
76	Pennsylvania State U	$27,342.37
77	Vanderbilt U	$27,293.04
78	Cornell Research Foundation	$26,541.95
79	U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$26,516.33
80	Colorado State U	$23,434.92
81	U of Southern California	$22,912.71
82	U of Kansas	$22,529.79
83	Oregon Health Sciences U	$22,318.77
84	Idaho Research Foundation, U of Idaho	$22,071.58
85	U of Delaware	$21,344.31
86	East Carolina U	$21,218.33
87	Oregon State U	$20,560.29
88	Mississippi State U	$20,286.36
89	Tufts U	$19,624.88
90	Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties	$18,997.87
91	U of Akron	$18,738.94
92	Southern Illinois U at Carbondale	$18,006.55
93	Lehigh U	$16,435.92
94	San Diego State U	$15,250.07
95	U of Miami	$14,512.87
96	U of Maryland at College Park	$14,074.12
97	U of Maryland at Baltimore	$13,819.44
98	Iowa State U	$13,617.95
99	Syracuse U	$13,603.87
100	U of Oregon	$13,421.67
101	U of Montana	$12,526.33
102	Michigan Technological U	$11,698.32
103	U of Maryland-Baltimore County	$11,321.29
104	U of Arizona	$11,151.29
105	New York Medical College	$10,867.85
106	Wright State U	$9,984.62
107	Medical College of Ohio	$9,883.53
108	Montana State U	$9,704.11
109	Purdue Research Foundation	$9,582.94
110	Kansas State U Research Foundation	$9,406.70
111	U of Louisville	$8,608.04
112	U of New Orleans	$7,862.90
113	U of New Hampshire	$7,642.31
114	New Jersey Institute of Technology	$7,500.00
115	Brandeis U	$7,254.79
116	New Mexico State U	$4,244.50
117	U of Maine	$1,000.00

These rankings can favor institutions that have had a license or two that produced a lot of income, as has been true for Florida State and Michigan State, with their anticancer drugs, and for Clemson, with its licenses for a technique for installing orthopedic implants and for software that controls tape storage in large computer systems.

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

RELATED MATERIAL:

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.