Technology Transfer Resources

• The UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations helps more than 20,000 business people each year access the scientific and technical resources of the University of Wisconsin.

• The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) handles all patents and licensing services pertaining to University of Wisconsin federally-funded inventions. Wisconsin ranks 9th in the nation for the value of royalties and license income per worker.

• The UW-Madison College of Engineering provides a wide range of resources in research and education for industrial partners ranging from entrepreneurial start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations.

• Marquette University's Biological and Biomedical Research Institute aids technology transfer through shared instrumentation, genetics analysis computer systems and molecular biology technology.

• The nonprofit research foundation of Milwaukee’s Medical College of Wisconsin has been transferring research into private industry businesses for 20 years and recently created a new division of Marketing and Licensing.

• The WICell Research Institute is a private non-profit organization established in 1999 to advance stem cell research.