Revenue received by UW TechTransfer is distributed to various stakeholders in accordance with contractual obligations and university policies.  These stakeholders include inventors and developers, departments, laboratories, colleges and schools, university research funds and joint rights holders.  UW TechTransfer retains an administrative fee and recovers certain expenses prior to distributions.  A link to the UW TechTransfer Royalty Distribution Formulas is listed below.  UW TechTransfer has developed a number of innovative programs for faculty to support ongoing projects with their Royalty Distributions like Waiver/Match and Project Budgets.  Additional information on these programs is provided below.

                  UW TechTransfer Royalty Distribution Formulas

Waiver/Match Program

In the Waiver/Match program faculty can choose to reinvest a portion of personal royalty earnings from a licensed technology back into their own or another UW research laboratory or program.  These waived funds, upon approval, will then be matched by the University.

                  Waiver/Match Procedure
                  Waver/Match Form

Project Budgets

Project Budgets is a program developed by UW TechTransfer for copyright and informatics based research projects whose intellectual property is being managed by UW TechTransfer’s Digital Ventures group.  A Project Budget reinvests licensing earnings back into the project to fund, for example, maintenance of software or databases, continued development of research tools or the purchase of capital equipment.  Investigators can participate in the program for any length of time, and at the start of each fiscal year can opt to discontinue participation.  Project Budgets are negotiated with your UW TechTransfer case manager.

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