About UW TechTransfer Digital Ventures

UW TechTransfer Digital Ventures staff includes six technology managers and a team of graduate students and legal externs. Digital Ventures manage technology intellectual property and marketing for a wide range of information assets developed at the University.

Our goals are to get University technology into public use and provide resources to sustain and reward the outreach and innovation activities of University developers. Presently we manage about 200 projects, and receive about 30 notices of new innovations each year.

We license to start-ups, publishers and distributors, commercial developers, and, through our site-licensing program, directly to collaborating organizations. We prefer non-exclusive, source-available licensing arrangements for software, but we work with a range of deployment and financial models.

The University's software licensing program was initiated in 1991 by Don Baldwin and Alvin Kwiram to address software-based innovations developed at the UW. Most universities do not have significant resources dedicated to copyright and software management. Digital Ventures has been able to leverage its unique strength in staff by helping to generate revenue for the campus from copyright-based works. 95% of our revenue comes from copyrights, with annual revenues ranging from $150,000 to $4.5 million a year. Revenue for 2003 was $3.6 million.

• Digital Ventures Fast Facts (PDF)
• What We Do - Digital Ventures' primary functions.
• Our Goals - What Digital Ventures hopes to accomplish with technology transfer.
• Areas of Practice - Licensing activities, and the types of media we manage.
• Educational Outreach - Digital Ventures' work supporting intellectual property education at the UW.
• News & Events - Information on Office Hours, Presentations, and upcoming Events
• Digital Ventures Team - Members of the Digital Ventures team.
• Contact Information - Address, telephone, fax, and e-mail information and directions to Digital Ventures' office.

See our Portfolio Highlights, Licensing, and Presentations for examples of Digital Ventures' work.