The purpose of the Faculty Outreach Group is to facilitate the commercialization of academic innovation and to build home-grown hi-tech start-ups in this region. Below are the initiatives:
- Advise on UCR Tech Transfer Initiative
- Establish access to services/infrastructure
- Invite Faculty Speakers to RTCF meetings
- Foster Academia-Industry Joint projects
- Faculty Business Startup Mentoring
- Promote University Research Park
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Round Table Discussions
- Q&A session with faculty members at UCR on how to set up a start-ups and pitfalls to avoid
RTCF Members: Brian Hawley, Agenor Mafra-Neto, Helen Chen, Rajan Kasetty, Tumay Tumer
Collaborator: Craig Sheward, Office of Technology Commercialization, UCR
Partnering with UCR
- Created a framework for Tech Transfer by standardizing licensing Agreements;
- Terrafore - $1.4 Million dollar Thermal Energy Storage Research project with funding from the Department of Energy. It involves the Dean, two professors and several students, with one of them likely to get a Ph.D. Dedicated lab set up at SC-RISE, the new solar innovation center of UCR at CE-CERT.
- Terrafore Inc. - First industry partner and on the advisory council of SC-RISE of UCR.
- Avisio Inc. – UCR Extension Course
- Surado – UCR Extension Course
- ISCA – Working with 6-7 professors on securing funding
Partnering with CBU
- Bourns Laboratories
- Terrafore Consulting to Cal Baptist University in setting up Solar Laboratory
Faculty Business Mentoring by Forum Members
Incubating at University Research Park
University Research Park
– High Level Meetings to revive initiatives - City/County/UCR
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Group Co-Chairs:
Don Dye
Agenor Mafra-Neto
Members:
Rajan Kasetty
Helen Chen
Brian Hawley
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Researchers turned Successful Entrepreneurs_
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Dr. Elena BekyavoraFormer research chemist at UCR President & CEO, Carbon Solutions
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Dr. Tumay TumerResearch Physicist at UCR (retired) President & CEO of Nova R&D
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