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In The Research Valley, entrepreneurs in every stage of business will find the resources they need for moving ideas and discoveries into business, including resources for business planning, technology commercialization, small business incubation, subject expertise, real estate, and professional education. If you'd like to learn more, please contact us, or click on the links below to directly connect to the programs.
Business Planning Tools
Texas Cooperative Extension
The Texas Cooperative Extension program transfers new knowledge and technologies from research in environment and natural resources, family and consumer sciences, youth and community development as well as production agriculture. County Extension agents serve as community educators and are supported by Extension specialists who provide research and educational resources. Extension serves all 254 Texas counties through 12 district centers and 250 county offices, employing more than 950 professional educators located across the state.
Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship
Virtually all of the high-growth businesses of the last decade have been involved in the development and commercialization of new technologies or innovative services. The Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship specifically focuses on entrepreneurship, new venture development and management through the development of academic courses, basic and applied research and service to the larger business community. Learn more about the MBA Technology Transfer Challenge, Business Idea Competition and New Venture Forums at this site.
Technology Commercialization
Technology Licensing Office
The Technology Licensing Office of The Texas A&M University System helps researchers move their inventions from the laboratory to commercial application. With 293 patents, nine universities, eight state agencies and a health science center that serves more than 88,000 students, the A&M System has more than $480 million in research projects underway today.
The TLO will work with you to commercialize these technologies and to partner with you in creating new ones.
Technology Transfer and Commercialization Initiative
Learn more about Texas A&M's new Technology Transfer and Commercialization Initiative, a "one-stop shop" to connect commercial businesses with researchers. Support for your commercialization project will be provided through innovative management and recruitment of technology commercialization support services such as small business incubators, accelerators, venture capitalists groups and angel investors.
Incubator
Research Valley Innovation Center
The Research Valley Partnership, Texas A&M University, and other local partners are currently developing this business incubator / accelerator for the region.
Subject Experts
Office of the Vice President of Research
The Office of the Vice President of Research develops and implements research policies, coordinates research activities with other Texas A&M University System agencies, and promotes a climate conducive to innovative faculty research. The Office's website contains a search engine that identifies Texas A&M faculty expertise, funding information, links to research centers and institutes, and the latest news and events.
Texas A&M Faculty Expertise Search Engine
By using the most comprehensive database of its kind in the world, you will find researcher profiles that include contact information, positions held, publications, patents, funding received and a first-person narrative describing current research activities and expertise. Profiles also include direct links to e-mail, a personal home page, an online CV, patent abstracts (and full-text where available), publication abstracts and available research grants.
Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)
TEES's know-how in applying leading-edge research to industry needs helps keep companies competitive in world markets. Technology developed by TEES’s researchers covers areas as diverse as electric power distribution, new fuel cells and more efficient methods of refining cooking oils. TEES has worked with more than 1,000 industry sponsors, annually supported 600 engineering graduate students through assistantships and 240 undergraduates in research activities and employs more than 1,300 people in about 4,500 projects. Read more about TEES's recently licensed technologies and technology currently available for license.
Health Science Center
The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center is committed to excellence in improving health through integrated education, research and public service programs that emphasize accessibility and public and community health. The center includes the Baylor College of Dentistry, College of Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Institute for Biosciences and Technology and School of Rural Public Health. Learn more about its research at the frontiers of medicine, biotechnology, dentistry, agriculture, engineering and public health.
Real Estate
Texas A&M University Research Park
The renown of the research organizations and facilities housed in the beautiful setting of the Research Park has made it a popular venue for new research ventures, cross-industry participation and international educational opportunities. Tenants conduct research in fields including public health, agriculture, transportation, technology development and engineering.
Whether office space for administrative purposes or a facility built for large-scale testing and simulations, the Research Park offers a natural setting that provides abundant resources and numerous research opportunities for tenants.
Professional Networking and Education
Technology Alliance
The Research Valley Technology Alliance is a network of area technology-based companies, technology business support organizations and community leaders working to advance the development of technology-based companies within The Research Valley. Visit this site to learn more about monthly networking events, seminars and workshops.
Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX)
World renowned for its hands-on, customized training, TEEX offers a wide range of technical training programs to enhance the skills of employed workers and to prepare workers entering the labor force. Firefighting, emergency medical services, law enforcement, heavy construction,
public works, electric power, transportation, telecommunications, computer technology, maritime, electronics and building construction crafts are just a few of the fields of training offered. Congress designated TEEX as the National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center to focus on preparing emergency responders to combat domestic terrorism.
Several federal programs are aimed at helping small businesses become more competitive and assisting in the transfer of technology from NASA and federal labs to the private sector.
Innovation Outreach Series
Designed to educate and inform inventors, entrepreneurs, and early stage businesses. Click here for a calendar of upcoming events.
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