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

• Half of PhD graduates within the last 5 yrs

• Align our programs to serve the economic, cultural, and social needs of our region

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

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

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.

• $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

UCF Incubation ProgramUCF 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

A Few Other Resources … 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…

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Leon Glebov - Photo-Thermal-Refractive (PTR) 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• ….

Volume Holograms in Glass

OPTIGRATE

Ultra-short pulse laser technology for multiple applications.

Peter Delfyett & Raydiance

2008 Patent Score Card