The University of Akron

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The University of Akron

• George R Newkome
• Vice President for Research Dean,
• Graduate School
• Kenneth G Preston
• Assoc. Vice President for Research
• Wayne H Watkins
• Assoc. Vice President for Research

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Statistics

• 29 Million in research projects
• 3 invention disclosures/M research- second in
  the nation
• 350 patents and applications
• 50 licenses - 2M royalties
• 5 start-up companies

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Leveraging Complementing Assets

• A historically strong science and engineering
  public university (1870)
• Large industrial community (BF Goodrich 1871
  Goodyear 1898 Firestone 1900)
• 2500 polymer companies (22.9 billion/yr)
• Largest industry in the State

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Maximizing the Strengths

• Knowledge management
• Equipment laboratory development
• Emerging business development
• Coordinated law, business technology programs
• Industrial assistantships
• Identifying and bundling intellectual property
• Community support and participation

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Knowledge Management

• UA has the largest science and engineering
  library in Northeast Ohio
• Local industry downsizing
• Recent industrial partners
• AES
• Firestone
• Goodyear
• McDermott
• OMNOVA Solutions
• Enhanced facilities, industry-wide, at lower cost

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Instrumentation support

• UAs state of the art instrumentation
• Reduced research funding
• Industry benefits
• Service needs
• Donation and contracts
• Old companies a write-off
• New companies opportunity and savings

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Intellectual Property Assets

• UAs intellectual property portfolio
• UAs IP strengths in research, tech transfer, law
  school and college of business
• Industry excess IP inventory
• New policies
• UA Research Foundation
• Bundling complementary IP from multiple sources
  for commercial exploitation