The Chronicle: 2002 Technology Transfer: Number of inventions disclosed 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 inventions disclosed per $1-million spending on research
RANK	INSTITUTION	NUMBER
1	Brigham Young U	4.5
2	U of Akron	2.5
3	East Carolina U	1.6
4	California Institute of Technology	1.2
5	Ohio U	1.1
6	U of Maryland-Baltimore County	1.0
7	Thomas Jefferson U	1.0
8	U of Utah	0.9
9	Princeton U	0.9
10	Arizona State U	0.9
11	Michigan Technological U	0.8
12	Iowa State U	0.8
13	Rutgers U	0.7
14	New Jersey Institute of Technology	0.7
15	U of Chicago, ARCH Development Corp	0.7
16	Southern Illinois U at Carbondale	0.7
17	Kent State U	0.7
18	U of Kentucky Research Foundation	0.7
19	U of Houston	0.7
20	U of Alabama at Birmingham	0.6
21	U of Virginia Patents Foundation	0.6
22	Columbia U	0.6
23	Georgia Institute of Technology	0.6
24	U of South Alabama	0.6
25	U of Maryland at College Park	0.6
26	Kansas State U Research Foundation	0.6
27	Carnegie Mellon U	0.6
28	Temple U	0.6
29	Stanford U	0.6
30	U of Louisville	0.6
31	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, U of Wisconsin, Madison	0.5
32	U of Cincinnati	0.5
33	New York Medical College	0.5
34	Idaho Research Foundation, U of Idaho	0.5
35	Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties	0.5
36	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	0.5
37	Cornell Research Foundation	0.5
38	U of Florida	0.5
39	U of Minnesota	0.5
40	Pennsylvania State U	0.5
41	U of Massachusetts	0.5
42	Wake Forest U	0.5
43	Purdue Research Foundation	0.5
44	U of Southern California	0.5
45	Medical College of Ohio	0.5
46	Washington Research Foundation, U of Washington	0.5
47	U of Pennsylvania	0.5
48	Brandeis U	0.5
49	U of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	0.5
50	U of Dayton	0.5
51	U of Kansas	0.5
52	U of Connecticut	0.5
53	Vanderbilt U	0.5
54	Michigan State U	0.5
55	Northwestern U	0.4
56	State U of New York Research Foundation	0.4
57	North Dakota State U	0.4
58	U of California System	0.4
59	U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	0.4
60	U of Maryland at Baltimore	0.4
61	Tufts U	0.4
62	Emory U	0.4
63	Duke U	0.4
64	U of South Florida	0.4
65	U of Rochester	0.4
66	Baylor College of Medicine	0.4
67	Brown U Research Foundation	0.4
68	U of Tennessee Research Corp.	0.4
69	U of New Mexico Science & Technology Corp	0.4
70	U of Illinois, Chicago and Urbana-Champaign	0.4
71	Oregon Health Sciences U	0.4
72	U of Iowa Research Foundation	0.4
73	Ohio State U	0.4
74	Texas A&M U System	0.4
75	North Carolina State U	0.3
76	U of Arizona	0.3
77	San Diego State U	0.3
78	Lehigh U	0.3
79	U of Texas at Austin	0.3
80	U of Michigan	0.3
81	Auburn U	0.3
82	U of Delaware	0.3
83	Harvard U	0.3
84	U of Arkansas at Fayetteville	0.3
85	U of Rhode Island	0.3
86	Case Western Reserve U	0.3
87	Indiana U (Advanced Research Technology Institute)	0.3
88	Dartmouth College	0.3
89	U of Pittsburgh	0.3
90	Mississippi State U	0.3
91	New York U	0.3
92	U of Georgia	0.3
93	Wayne State U	0.3
94	Yale U	0.3
95	Syracuse U	0.3
96	Johns Hopkins U	0.3
97	Loyola U Medical Center (Ill)	0.3
98	Colorado State U	0.3
99	Oregon State U	0.2
100	Wright State U	0.2
101	U of Montana	0.2
102	Tulane U	0.2
103	Oklahoma State U	0.2
104	Clemson U	0.2
105	Montana State U	0.2
106	U of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	0.2
107	Washington U in St. Louis	0.2
108	U of Nebraska at Lincoln	0.2
109	U of Miami	0.2
110	U of New Orleans	0.2
111	U of Hawaii	0.2
112	U of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	0.2
113	U of Oregon	0.2
114	Florida State U	0.1
115	U of Maine	0.1
116	New Mexico State U	0.1
117	U of New Hampshire	0.1

By encouraging professors to disclose their inventions, institutions like BYU and Akron build a pipeline that becomes the basis for technology-transfer activities.

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.