Title: Texas State University System Presentation on Commercialization Efforts
1Texas State University SystemPresentation on
Commercialization Efforts
Economic Development and Commercialization
Subcommittee Cancer Prevention and Research
Institute of Texas 11 February 2009 Meeting
1 Sul Ross State University 2 Sul Ross State
University Rio Grande College 3 Texas State
University-San Marcos 4 Sam Houston State
University 5 Lamar University 6 Lamar Institute
of Technology 7 Lamar State College-Orange 8
Lamar State College-Port Arthur
2Office of Technology Commercialization
- Created Q1 2008 at Texas State University-San
Marcos - Director Reddy Venumbaka, Ph.D.
- Assistant Director Teresa Carey
- Reporting to Vice President of Research Billy
Covington, Ph.D. - Instrumental in obtaining ETF Research
Superiority Award of 4M in Q4 2008 - Focused on accelerating research through
development into commercialization - Support collaborative TC effort results
3Recent Centers
- Heterofunctional Materials III-V II-VI funded
through ONR for 2M 2008 - Research Superiority award Q4 08 4M ETF, 12.5M
total - Resulted in the creation of
- Materials Engineering and Research expansion
- Molecular Beam Epitaxial MBE effort
- Center for Research Commercialization CRC
4Intra System Collaborations
- Lamar Sam Houston Sul Ross
- Lamar Texas State
- Sam Houston Texas State
- Sul Ross Texas State
- Texas State University System Nano Technology
Working Group TSUSNTWG - Working agreements between/among institutions
easily implemented
5Inter System Collaborations
- Texas AM TEES, TiiMS
- Rice Nano efforts
- UT Austin nano material production
- UNT nano material properties
- Angelo State heterofunctional materials
- PPP organization being developed including UT D
leading, UT Arlington, UNT, Texas AM - Round Rock campus 2008 nursing school with
Temple area medical organizations hospitals and
AM - PPP gt Public Private Partnership
6Company Collaborations 07/08
- Nanotailor, Inc. SWCNT near term funding
- NanoTox, Inc. toxicity expanded
- Xtronix, Inc. 45nm metrology equip ETF award
- NOISE subsurface scanning
- ANI CNT applications operating company
- Faradox, Inc. super capacitors Venture funded
- Fiber Reactor LLC bio-diesel company
Multi-company funding - Graphene manufacturing unnamed company