Our Mission
UCLA Technology Development Group serves as a campus-wide gateway to Innovation, Research and Entrepreneurship. Our mission is to:
- Promote UCLA innovation, research, teaching and entrepreneurship to benefit society
- Create economic value to support UCLA’s scholarly and educational missions and the State of California
- Lead UCLA’s research community to bring innovation to market
Scope of Activities
- Commercially evaluating new technologies
- Determining patentability and commercial value
- Prosecuting patents
- Marketing and licensing inventions
- Facilitating UCLA faculty startups
- Engaging industry to facilitate research collaboration
- Negotiating license agreements and Material Transfer Agreements
- Receiving and distributing royalties and other income to the inventors, UCLA Campus and its Departments
Facts & Figures
UCLA ranks among the nation's top five institutions in research funding. As a result we have a long history of doing a large and diverse number of startup companies and license agreements with existing companies across technology areas.
Contact Information
Address: 10889 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 920
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7191
Tel.: 310-794-0558
Fax: 310-861-8862
For General Inquiries: info@tdg.ucla.edu