University Venture Development Fund

UO Resources

The university’s primary strengths in fundamental research are magnified by a wealth of interdisciplinary institutes focusing on key aspects of nanoscience, neuroscience, bioinformatics, molecular biology, and education. The University’s excellence in these areas is reflected by its standing as one of only two Northwest universities selected for membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU).

Projects competing for grants from the UO Venture Development Fund also will benefit from unique resources based at the university’s Eugene campus:

UO Technology Entrepreneurship Program (TEP)

M.B.A, law, and science students jointly develop market feasibility and assessment studies on patentable technologies and innovation emerging from UO research. Guided by UO experts, the students engage in an intensive real-world learning experience in which they learn how to

• Identify research results having commercial potential

• Evaluate new discoveries to determine potential for commercialization

• Facilitate development of new companies based on UO innovation

Now in its sixth year, this innovative program springs from a partnership involving the Battelle Memorial Institute and the UO law school’s Law and Entrepreneurship Center, the business school’s Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Office of Technology Transfer.

Riverfront Research Park

Tenants in the facilities bordering the university’s science complex include UO spin-out companies working in optics, neuroscience, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, internet-based multimedia, software, web design, behavioral research, teaching, networking productions and solutions, and customer relations management.

Lorry I. Lokey Laboratories

The University of Oregon’s new nanoscience research facility is affiliated with the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI), the state’s first signature research center. This “high tech extension service”, set to open in early 2008, will serve industry and academic researchers throughout the region by providing highly sophisticated instrumentation facilities for the fabrication and measurement of materials at the atomic scale of resolution.