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Technology Transfer Office and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Group Sign an MOU to Promote Tech Transfer at UCCS

May 11, 2005

Boulder, CO - Effective July 1, 2005, the Colorado Institute for Technology Transfer and Implementation at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (http://citti.uccs.edu ) will provide support to TTO for tech transfer activities at the UCCS campus. This group, known as CITTI, will promote the concept and practice of technology transfer to the UCCS faculty, which should result in the disclosure of more inventions to TTO. CITTI will also help TTO build and manage invention disclosure review and business plan development teams. Such teams will be formed around specific invention cases and will be composed of the inventors, TTO licensing associates, graduate students, intellectual property attorneys, technology domain exerts, early stage investors and serial entrepreneurs. CITTI's contacts in the Colorado Springs business community will be used to populate these teams. This team-based approach leverages the assets of the University and local business community, and is the basis of over half of the nearly 25 companies created based on CU IP in the past two years. Two start-ups have emerged from the laboratories of Karen Newell and Terry Boult at UCCS.

In addition to these activities, CITTI organizes conferences, seminars and symposiums in the areas of the three El Pomar Chairs: Communications and Computing, Engineering and Innovation and Entrepreneurial Finance. CITTI also provides support for the journal Comparative Technology Transfer and Society and for networking events with the Colorado Springs business community. The CITTI contact for technology transfer activities is Daedra Pierce, dpierce@uccs.edu.