{"id":54680,"date":"2009-10-28T11:14:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T16:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologytransfertactics.com\/content\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2009-10-28T11:14:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T16:14:52","slug":"u-of-florida-center-wins-award-for-excellence-in-technology-commercialization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/54680","title":{"rendered":"U of Florida center wins award for excellence in technology commercialization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UF Tech Connect, a program of the Office of Technology Licensing at the University of Florida in Gainesville, has received the Award of Excellence in Technology Commercialization from the University Economic Development Association. The award recognizes the center&#8217;s role in creating high-tech companies, jobs, and private investments in Florida. During its 2008 fiscal year, UF Tech Connect helped client companies generate more than $86.9 million in private investments and create more than 77 jobs. The UF Tech Connect program brings together UF faculty, entrepreneurs, and investors, explains Jane Muir, director of the center. The center also develops new programs and sponsors events that foster new business creation. &#8220;The UF Tech Connect program plays an important role in helping to commercialize university discoveries by helping create technology-based start-up companies,&#8221; says Win Phillips, UF vice president for research.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ufl.edu\/2009\/10\/21\/uf-tech-award\/\" >University of Florida News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UF Tech Connect, a program of the Office of Technology Licensing at the University of Florida in Gainesville, has received the Award of Excellence in Technology Commercialization from the University Economic Development Association. The award recognizes the center&#8217;s role in creating high-tech companies, jobs, and private investments in Florida. During its 2008 fiscal year, UF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}