Texas State University System Presentation on Commercialization Efforts

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Texas 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
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Office 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

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Recent 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

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Intra 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

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Inter 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

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Company 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