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Overview

ReliaQuest founder and CEO Brian Murphy shares why research partnerships with °®°®Ö±²¥ are important to his company.

a Catalyst for Innovation & workforce development

The °®°®Ö±²¥ is an Site, which is geared for developing potential I-Corps Team projects and providing an entrepreneurial program for potential faculty and graduate student teams to complete together to assess their business potential.

The °®°®Ö±²¥ is a research university that serves as a catalyst for innovation, generating new solutions to complex problems, and improving lives — all while preparing the highly skilled workforce essential for our state's business sector to flourish.

The °®°®Ö±²¥ Research Foundation, a not-for-profit, direct-support organization (DSO), owns and operates the °®°®Ö±²¥ Research Park of Tampa Bay. The Research Foundation also administers °®°®Ö±²¥ CONNECT, the Tampa Bay Technology Incubator (TBTI), and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council matching-grant program on behalf of the University.

°®°®Ö±²¥ CONNECT focuses on the needs of Tampa Bay's technology and bio/life sciences entrepreneurs, providing the facilities, partners and resources for successful business development, including access to technologies, workforce programs, technology commercialization, critical research equipment, incubator facilities, faculty researchers, student interns, and a matching grants program.

The °®°®Ö±²¥ Research Park of Tampa Bay, located at the °®°®Ö±²¥ Tampa campus, offers space and equipment, and links °®°®Ö±²¥ researchers to businesses in need of research partners, primarily in the areas of biotechnology and life sciences research and entrepreneurship.

The Technology Transfer Office (TTO) works with companies interested in licensing or starting a new business around °®°®Ö±²¥ patents and intellectual property, and with °®°®Ö±²¥ researchers and students to ready new inventions for the patenting process and potential licensing opportunities.