UCLA Offers E-mail Notification to Facilitate Commercial Use of Research Discoveries

LOS ANGELES - As part of a program designed to speed the transfer of technology to the marketplace, UCLA's Office of Intellectual Property Administration now offers company officials the chance to receive e-mail notification of the latest licensing opportunities born in campus research labs.

Research-and-development executives from several hundred companies now subscribe to the "HiddenGems" announcements, which can be catered to meet specific research interests. The companies are leaders in a wide range of industries including biotechnology, defense, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, telecommunications, chemicals, nanotechnology, venture capital and investment banking.