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2008 Fast Facts

Economic Impact:

  • The UW Center for Commercialization manages a total patent portfolio of over 2,200 issued and pending patents filed in the U.S. and around the world.

  • 244 companies have been started by UW students and faculty or with UW technology.

  • $2.4 million in Technology Gap Innovation Funds (TGIF) have been awarded to 49 projects since the program was introduced in 2004. This joint program of the UW Center for Commercialization and the Washington Research Foundation supports UW inventions that are commercially promising.

  • In FY08, 571 researchers from 81 departments disclosed innovations to the UW Center for Commercialization, increasing the number of departments the UW Center for Commercialization worked with by 27 percent.

  • UW innovators earned $10 million from their successful technologies in FY08.

  • The UW Center for Commercialization revenues contributed over $16 million in FY08 to UW’s Royalty Research Fund, whose purpose is to advance new directions in research.

  • In FY08, over 6,400 licenses were executed for academic no-charge software/content. Through the the UW Center for Commercialization portals (UW OpenDoor and Express Licenses), UW innovators make available academic licenses, open source software, freeware and data sets.