Inter-dependent Model for Private Sector Interaction

Technology transfer usually means taking an idea from a research laboratory, patenting the technology, and hopefully licensing the technology to a company. Only two out of 100 patents end up recovering their costs and having success in the marketplace. In short, this one-way process is a technology looking for a market.

We engage the private sector in our technology transfer process, realizing technological solutions that truly have global impact. This "inter-dependent" process is a two-way interchange involving a dynamic interplay between market opportunity and discovery. The Inter-dependent Model recognizes this fact and provides for various mechanisms for interaction between a university laboratory and the private sector.

Contact us for more information as to how you might engage College of Engineering faculty and resources.

Examples of engineering technology transfer at CSU:

Envirofit
As part of the university's mission to support research that promotes global health and environmental sustainability, students and faculty created Envirofit to develop the technology into a commercial product to sell in the developing world. Read more.

Dupont
CSU received patent and grant gifts from DuPont supporting the development and commercialization of an innovative process to clean contaminated soils. Read more.

AVA Technologies
Professor Walajabad Sampath and his research team have perfected a manufacturing process that turns ordinary window glass into solar panels that could be used to generate power anywhere the sun shines, and they have formed AVA Technologies to take it to market. Read more.

Jmar Technologies Inc.
Laser technology developer, Jmar Technologies Inc. finalized a licensing agreement with Colorado State University for the use of its discharge-pumped soft x-ray laser, developed at the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology, an Engineering Research Center funded by the National Science Foundation and based at CSU. Read more.