Oak Ridge National Laboratory's technology transfer program supports a variety of commercialization activities.
The Center for Entrepreneurial Growth:
Operated by Technology 2020 in Oak Ridge to provide legal, marketing and other services for a start-up company that has a license or business partnership with the Laboratory or is founded by a former or current ORNL employee.
Contact: Bob Wilson,
865-220-2020,
wilson@tech2020.org
Oak Ridge Science and Technology Park:
A planned, 40-acre, privately funded business park on the ORNL campus that will house a variety of organizations—start-ups, universities, corporations with research projects at ORNL and Laboratory contractors.
Contact:
Lawrence Young,
Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee,
865-482-9890
License:
UT-Battelle, as manager of ORNL, transfers rights to a patented technology or set of technologies to a private company in exchange for payments that can include up-front fees, royalties and equity.
Contact:
Casey Porto,
Technology Transfer Director,
865-574-1051,
portoca@ornl.gov
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement:
An agreement between ORNL and a company (or other non-federal participant) that allows collaboration, cost sharing and pooling of R&D results to bring a specific technology to the marketplace.
Contact:
Frank Damiano,
Sponsored Research Group Leader,
865-576-2967,
damianofv@ornl.gov
Work-for-Others Agreement:
ORNL provides R&D or technical assistance to a company or government customer for a fee.
Contact:
Frank Damiano, Sponsored Research Group Leader,
865-576-2967,
damianofv@ornl.gov
User Agreement:
An agreement between the Laboratory and a private company, university, DOE laboratory or other federal agency that allows the customer to conduct research or solve a problem using the special instruments and equipment in the Laboratory's designated user facilities. ORNL personnel may be used in a support capacity to complete an experiment or provide routine maintenance and repair. If the research is proprietary, the user pays a fee. Use is free to a user if the research results are published in the open literature.
Contact:
Bill Painter, Sponsored Research Manager User Facilities,
865-574-5471,
painterwp@ornl.gov
Technology Maturation Funds:
Funding supplied either by commercialization royalties or private sources, including UT-Battelle and Battelle, that is used to ready technology for license.
Contact:
Casey Porto, Technology Transfer Director,
865-574-1051,
portoca@ornl.gov
Venture Capital:
Funding directly aimed at ORNL technologies that includes a $150 million fund, Princeton, N.J-based Battelle Ventures and a companion fund, $35 million Innovation Valley Partners. Other local funds include the $12.5 million Southern Appalachian Fund and $30 million Meritus Ventures, both co-managed by Technology 2020.
Contact:
Glenn Kline, Battelle Ventures and Innovation Valley Partners,
865-329-6421,
partners@innovationvalleypartners.com
Grady Vanderhoofven, Technology 2020,
865-220-2020,
grady@tech2020.org
Angel Funding:
Available through the Innovation Valley Angel Network, facilitated by Technology 2020, that provides higher net-worth individuals an opportunity to invest in early-stage technology companies.
Contact:
Geoff Robson,
865-220-2020,
robson@tech2020.org
Technology 2020:
A regional economic development organization, based in Oak Ridge, that provides incubator space, business services and financial resources to technology-oriented companies in East Tennessee.
Contact:
Tom Rogers,
865-220-2020,
rogers@tech2020.org
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