Innovation and Commercialization

UTA strongly supports faculty, students and entrepreneurs who want to introduce groundbreaking technologies or a new idea into the marketplace to improve people’s lives.

The commercialization of technologies and ideas developed at UTA links our university to the growing innovation and investment ecosystem in the DFW Metroplex. Investors increasingly look to UTA as a source of groundbreaking ideas to fuel the region's fast-growing economy.

The Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Development (CETD) is the central office responsible for promoting the innovation and commercialization of UTA tech transfer. CETD manages the protection, marketing, and licensing of campus-created inventions and intellectual property—including patents, copyrights, and know-how. By acting as a bridge to industry, CETD serves internal and external clients through education and collaboration, ensuring UTA’s diverse research expertise provides partners with a technological winning edge in the marketplace.

We stand ready to assist you to

Services

  • Evaluate whether research results are patentable and navigate your technology through the patenting process

  • Protect intellectual property while protecting academic priorities, interests and values

  • Effectively transfer discoveries and inventions from the laboratory into commercial development

  • Generate collaborations with industrial partners for new sources of research sponsorship

  • Market and successfully license the technologies

  • Monitor research and license agreements to ensure the development and commercialization of your technologies

  • Establish your start-up company by helping to find and obtain funding, put a management team in place, etc.

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