The University of Oregon has won a $435,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the commercial potential of technology developed within Oregon’s research universities.
The funding will allow grad students to evaluate whether technology developed by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory — which has a Nanotechnology facility — has commercial applications.
Starlight (left), originally developed for the intelligence community, provides visual access to large amounts of data in a 3D.
The NSF grant, along with $45,000 from Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, will go toward forming the new Oregon Technology Entrepreneurship Consortium. It will involve HP, Tek, IBM and Intel, among others, to look for marketable technology within Oregon’s universities.
The consortium plans to support 60 grad students over the three years. Oregon State also runs the Open Source Lab, the Open Source Education Lab (OSEL) and the Linux Users Group (LUG), which are open source student and faculty outreach groups.
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