University of Florida Innovators Honored at 4th Annual Standing InnOvation Event
On a sunny and fresh fall afternoon, UF Innovate | Tech Licensing hosted its annual event to recognize top innovations stemming out of the University of Florida. More than 150 innovators and entrepreneurs attended the in-person event, and around 40 joined the livestream to celebrate their achievements in fiscal year 2021.
Interview with Juan Tomás Hernani, CEO of SATLANTIS
Avión Revue, an international aviation news site, interviewed Hernani about his journey licensing the technology with the University of Florida and upcoming projects.
A Chemical Engineer Witnessing UF’s Technology Commercialization Firsthand
Eric, a UF chemical engineer graduate fellow, is learning all about tech transfer to potentially patent his technology in the future.
Gainesville Tech Fund Selects Mattrix Technologies for Inaugural Investment
Mattrix Technologies is the first company targeted for investment by the newly established Gainesville Tech Fund, organized by venture capital firm Kirenaga. The investors in the fund include successful entrepreneurs and local business leaders.
Florida High Tech Corridor Incubators Experience Startup Surge
Florida native and CEO of Agriculture Intelligence Matt Donovan has discovered a “renewed environment with a fertile ground for talent.” A resident company in UF Innovate | The Hub, Agriculture Intelligence is a precision agriculture science company combining machine vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence to provide cloud-based, precision data for specialty crops.
UF Innovate’s Jim O’Connell Featured on Technology Transfer IP Podcast
Jim O’Connell, assistant vice president for Commercialization at UF Innovate is featured on Tech Transfer IP Forum Podcast, a space devoted to providing in-depth analysis of intellectual property issues related to university and non-profit technology transfer.
Economic Impact
Despite the pandemic, University of Florida researchers conducted record amounts of research in 2020 and companies born of UF research continued to bring billions of dollars and thousands of jobs into the state.
UAVs and AI Are the Newest Tools Growers Can Use for Crop Management
They say knowledge is power. That philosophy is what drives Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis, an assistant professor at the Southwest Florida Research and Education Center in Immokalee, where he leads the precision agriculture engineering program.
University of Florida Researcher Creates Innovative Training Platform That Makes Cyberspace a Safer Place
It teaches how to identify and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities in hardware and software Dr. Mark Tehranipoor and his team at UF’s Florida... Read More
Snyder, Founder of Florida Biologix, Named Innovator of the Year for 2020
When informed that he was the recipient of “Innovator of the Year” – the highest recognition that UF Innovate | Tech Licensing... Read More