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2008 Patent Score Card: How UCF is helping accelerate Florida’s knowledge-based economy

2008 Patent Score Card: How UCF is helping accelerate Florida’s knowledge-based economy. MJ Soileau Vice President for Research and Commercialization. UCF established as Florida Technological University, June 1963 50,500+ students Half of all graduates within the last 12 yrs

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2008 Patent Score Card: How UCF is helping accelerate Florida’s knowledge-based economy

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  1. 2008 Patent Score Card: How UCF is helping accelerate Florida’s knowledge-based economy MJ Soileau Vice President for Research and Commercialization

  2. UCF established as Florida Technological University, June 1963 • 50,500+ students • Half of all graduates within the last 12 yrs • Half of PhD graduates within the last 5 yrs • Align our programs to serve the economic, cultural, and social needs of our region

  3. Commitment to build technology-based industry • Building quality programs in focused areas that impact the region’s high tech industry • Commitment to expand services to industry, entrepreneurship education, incubation, tech transfer, & actively support high economic growth

  4. Industry Clusters AND Areas of UCF Focus • Optics /Photonics (College of Optics/CREOL) • Simulation (Institute for Simulation and Training) • IT / Computer Science (nationally ranked program) • Aerospace / Aviation (Florida Space Institute) • Energy (Florida Solar Energy Institute) • Materials Science and Engineering (AMPAC) • Substantial new investments in nano and life sciences

  5. University-Industry Partnerships • Grand debate, conflict of interest, and other pot holes. • “You do not do partnerships because they are easy.In fact they are hard. You do partnerships because you can attack bigger, more important problems.” • UCF does not require faculty to work with industry but… • We encourage it, we facilitate it, and we provide incentives for it.

  6. $2 MM/year in cash match to company projects • Joint marketing and other partnerships with state and regional EDOs and UF and USF • Joint lobbing for education at all levels, programs of benefit to industry, etc. Florida High Tech Corridor

  7. UCF Incubation Program • Today serves 64 clients and 23 graduates. Clients have created 900 jobs @ $60k avg. salary, generate $200m+ annual revenues, secured $170m+ investment capital • Stakeholders today are UCF, Orange Co., City of Orlando, FHTCC, Seminole Co., and Metro Orlando EDC, Winter Springs, etc. • NBIA Incubator of the Year in 2004

  8. A Few Other Resources … • UCF Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation • UCF Venture Lab • UCF Small Business Development Center • Advisory Board Council • Business Referral Network • UCF Institute for Economic Competitiveness • UCF is invested in two venture funds • Fast track for SBIRs • Central Florida Research Park • And…

  9. PTR glass Writing Writing beam beam Transmitted Diffracted beam beam Reading Bragg grating beam OPTIGRATE Leon Glebov - Photo-Thermal-Refractive (PTR) glass Volume Holograms in Glass • Applications: • Conventional optics: lenses • beam splitters, polarizers, atten. • Laser systems • attenuators, mode selectors, ... • Opt. Com.- WDM filters, • add/drop, equalizers, ... • Data storage -unlimited reading • ….

  10. Peter Delfyett & Raydiance Ultra-short pulse laser technology for multiple applications.

  11. 2008 Patent Score Card

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