Optics Innovations
Technology Transfer at the University of Central Florida
UCF is home to two optics-based research centers. Both enjoy robust government and industrial funding, and have faculty with significant industry experience and an entrepreneurial spirit.
The University of Central Florida (UCF) is home to the College of Optics and Photonics, which includes two optics-based research centers: The Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) and the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE). Both enjoy robust government and industrial funding, and have faculty with significant industry experience and an entrepreneurial spirit.
Like many academic institutions with optics research programs, UCF has been working to protect and commercialize its intellectual property (IP) rights. This has been a trend at academic centers since the 1980s, when the Bayh-Dole Act was passed to encourage the transfer of government-sponsored research into industry. The Act allows universities to retain and use rights to inventions made by their faculty under government-sponsored grants.
In 2006, UCF generated close to 50 invention disclosures on optics-related inventions and filed a similar number of optics-related patent applications.
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