Engineering Entrepreneurs
After years of hard work, you did it. Your discovery will make a difference – maybe even change the world. Now, how do you get it to the people that need it?
That's where Tech Launch Arizona comes in. Faculty, staff and students can turn to TLA's expertise in licensing inventions and launching startups to make sure their ventures see the success they deserve. Just talk through your work with a TLA Licensing Manager, and you have the opportunity to:
- Increase funding for your lab, department and college
- Qualify for industry and federal grants, such as SBIR funds
- Make your research more attractive for future funding
How University of Arizona Commercialization Works
Find out how Tech Launch Arizona helps principal investigators delving into new discoveries and researchers with inventions – make the greatest impact.Arizona has been named an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University
for its programs supporting inventors, entrepreneurship and tech transfer.
Contact Information
Please contact Tech Launch Arizona’s Tariq Ahmed for more information about inventions and commercialization.
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Tariq AhmedSenior Licensing Manager, College of Engineering |
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Tech Launch Arizona Resources & Services
Tech Launch Arizona Resources & Services
- Intellectual Property Protection and Licensing – Single point of contact for all commercialization activities, including IP protection, licensing, business intelligence and startup formation.
- Venture Development – Subject-area experts and experienced Mentors-in-Residence to help develop healthy startups, build leadership teams, and increase SBIR/STTR effectiveness.
- Asset Development – Funding for inventors to develop early-stage technologies and move them closer to licensing readiness.
To learn more:
Out of the Lab and Into the Market
TLA supports inventors – from patents to licensing and startups
Enabling Affordable Data
Codelucida’s error-correction software for flash-memory – in smartphones, tablets, computers, data centers and communications networks – ultimately means higher-memory devices that cost less.
Keeping Miners and Mining Safe
GUIA’s technology senses a miner’s location and body temperature and recommends steps to avert health risks. It also reports on air quality, ground stabilization and equipment locations.
Promoting a Better Sunscreen
A long-lasting sunscreen that doesn’t break down or seep into the skin is working its way toward store shelves via MexiAloe Laboratorios, S.A., a subsidiary of Mexican food distributor Novamex.
Avoiding Traffic Jams with Mobile App
Drivers in some cities are using startup Metropia’s mobile app to earn rewards while avoiding traffic. The app predicts drive times and provides emergency alerts and alternate travel routes.
Turning Waste into Concrete Substitute
UA-born Acrete has developed a substitute that is lighter, stronger and less expensive than concrete. The concrete substitute uses three times as much fly ash as traditional Portland cement.
Improving Automotive Radar Technology
Startup Lunewave Inc. is commercializing a pair of inventions that use inexpensive, high-performing, 3D-printed Luneburg lenses to improve radar systems for autonomous vehicles.
Fast Facts
UA Commercialization
Attention Arizona Engineering Students!
TLA has paid student fellowships available for students who want to learn more about intellectual property.
