CU Tech Transfer divides to conquer

The University of Colorado decentralized its technology transfer program within the university system in the past year, in large part because the Boulder and Anschutz Medical campuses were getting too large to manage together.

Both campuses had “different portfolios and in order for those to get the kind of support they needed and be able to run and grow and develop those it made sense to basically separate technology transfer,” says Terri Fiez, vice chancellor for research and innovation at CU-Boulder.

It wasn’t a complete separation. The…