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Licensing Revenue and Patent Activity, 2008 Fiscal Year

February 15, 2010

Northwestern U. $824,426,230 | 4 | 28 | 195 | 158 | 32 | $368,169,430
U. of California system $146,314,433 | 55 | 206 | 1,913 | 899 | 224 | $4,403,662,006
Columbia U. $134,273,996 | 10 | 36 | 34 | 264 | 59 | $640,000,000

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Name of institution	Licensing income	Start-up companies formed	Licenses executed	Total active licenses	New patent applications	U.S. patents issued	Total research spending
Northwestern U.	$824,426,230	4	28	195	158	32	$368,169,430
U. of California system	$146,314,433	55	206	1,913	899	224	$4,403,662,006
Columbia U.	$134,273,996	10	36	34	264	59	$640,000,000
New York U.	$104,254,314	6	40	261	42	30	$310,699,000
Wake Forest U.	$90,005,640	2	11	N/A	N/A	10	$148,686,377
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$88,924,500	20	98	818	282	140	$1,319,000,000
U. of Minnesota	$84,669,281	1	63	781	58	37	$583,524,000
U. of Washington, Washington Research Foundation	$80,330,765	9	212	1,122	149	56	$1,026,788,452
U. of Rochester	$72,264,249	6	18	99	74	25	$361,602,172
Stanford U.	$62,514,524	9	107	956	396	132	$694,217,484
U. of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation	$54,130,000	6	75	547	144	98	$942,000,000
U. of Florida	$52,252,469	14	75	395	180	52	$483,798,009
U. of Massachusetts	$35,982,532	2	35	266	66	25	$435,247,000
Mount Sinai School of Medicine	$31,390,804	0	14	89	18	13	$296,379,952
U. of Utah	$26,211,372	20	78	224	119	33	$273,005,853
U. of Michigan	$25,008,033	13	91	339	132	75	$875,753,507
U. of Georgia	$24,128,536	2	130	651	60	33	$350,299,000
U. of Iowa Research Foundation	$23,560,163	0	22	272	36	24	$293,564,000
Wayne State U.	$23,554,221	1	8	109	35	7	$249,210,000
Harvard U.	$20,980,563	12	56	537	167	55	$660,081,500
California Institute of Technology	$19,220,613	14	57	136	426	N/A	N/A
Emory U.	$19,096,296	3	24	220	70	3	$390,965,216
Research Foundation of State U. of New York	$19,059,356	10	56	469	126	44	$784,324,279
Washington U. in St. Louis	$15,715,818	4	52	462	112	14	$548,351,000
Duke U.	$15,591,503	7	96	639	102	32	$678,184,248
Case Western Reserve U.	$13,294,612	1	34	N/A	N/A	N/A	$416,077,000
Texas A&M U. system	$11,787,219	1	41	444	75	28	$582,365,000
U. of Texas at Austin	$11,553,727	10	56	204	74	25	$527,141,322
Johns Hopkins U.	$11,362,574	12	92	441	387	45	$1,183,768,000
Baylor College of Medicine	$8,863,000	1	44	534	30	11	$304,225,000
U. of Chicago	$8,623,473	0	22	214	58	29	$317,515,531
Iowa State U.	$8,580,317	2	57	512	76	27	$251,674,000
Vanderbilt U.	$8,322,536	4	49	308	69	16	$444,332,462
U. of Pennsylvania	$8,200,086	2	54	489	478	44	$667,354,660
U. of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	$8,130,988	2	36	155	43	26	$488,654,827
Rutgers U.	$7,978,746	2	97	489	83	36	$323,404,000
U. of Illinois, Chicago and Urbana-Champaign campuses	$7,547,408	11	66	345	167	55	$830,779,000
U. of Alabama at Birmingham Research Foundation	$7,404,587	1	17	251	31	10	$404,615,000
U. of Southern California	$7,270,538	5	31	205	135	41	$484,600,000
U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	$7,175,844	2	41	363	45	15	$377,169,609
Cornell Research Foundation Inc.	$6,928,171	5	46	433	137	54	$668,227,455
U. of Oregon	$6,848,652	0	37	94	3	4	$101,342,337
U. of Missouri, all campuses	$6,713,233	6	65	109	58	20	$354,736,593
U. of Pittsburgh	$6,666,734	3	58	204	100	36	$641,626,000
Georgetown U.	$6,518,923	0	20	168	26	12	$144,957,000
Carnegie Mellon U.	$6,364,422	10	25	227	40	21	$229,280,000
U. of Colorado	$6,040,300	11	59	113	81	28	$661,000,000
Ohio U.	$5,872,011	3	3	11	41	5	$25,977,573
Tulane U.	$5,492,028	1	2	44	19	5	$146,875,083
Indiana U.	$4,960,554	2	31	217	50	8	$404,621,549
Dartmouth College	$4,939,523	1	8	128	25	13	$174,109,072
Michigan State U.	$4,768,590	3	25	300	125	48	$356,767,000
Oregon Health & Science U.	$4,683,605	4	48	269	34	13	$279,849,368
Brigham Young U.	$4,481,644	9	29	195	52	3	$26,364,124
U. of Virginia Patent Foundation	$4,479,545	2	65	378	252	12	$257,651,000
Tufts U.	$4,017,373	2	13	86	22	8	$151,007,696
U. of Tennessee	$3,877,000	2	17	121	64	15	$246,397,068
Purdue Research Foundation	$3,411,728	11	82	N/A	175	24	$495,099,000
U. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	$3,375,907	2	25	133	14	3	$197,251,748
Louisiana State U. system	$2,865,003	2	12	82	62	25	$391,767,000
Clemson U.	$2,861,439	3	25	20	65	15	$139,283,678
U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$2,779,464	5	58	306	55	17	$619,600,024
U. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	$2,491,100	0	4	92	13	6	$201,323,000
U. of Nebraska	$2,452,336	3	28	158	78	13	$342,648,172
Oregon State U.	$2,346,225	1	42	157	42	11	$188,056,000
Georgia Institute of Technology	$2,247,922	9	49	379	193	46	$536,412,548
Ohio State U.	$2,094,803	5	23	173	66	15	$702,563,477
Yeshiva U. Albert Einstein College of Medicine	$2,034,755	1	4	N/A	12	8	$145,523,590
U. of South Alabama	$2,022,116	0	0	11	6	2	$28,079,274
Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc.	$1,975,867	3	20	145	85	23	$199,635,893
Virginia Commonwealth U.	$1,884,093	3	10	10	81	6	$148,655,000
Thomas Jefferson U.	$1,840,458	0	6	46	13	5	$94,031,794
U. of South Florida	$1,831,000	5	28	121	129	31	$298,500,000
U. of Maryland at College Park	$1,554,532	3	12	191	93	23	$346,369,269
Kansas State U. Research Foundation	$1,550,106	3	10	59	21	5	$95,878,594
Pennsylvania State U.	$1,504,063	1	26	152	107	38	$717,244,000
North Dakota State U.	$1,487,811	0	122	353	29	9	$115,513,000
Boston U., Boston Medical Center	$1,484,441	12	23	143	66	9	$343,423,777
Johns Hopkins U. Applied Physics Laboratory	$1,378,057	1	16	105	57	23	$819,288,904
Florida State U.	$1,257,266	3	11	59	27	11	$206,541,848
Arizona State U.	$1,212,021	1	50	94	87	16	$237,521,155
Oklahoma State U.	$1,207,251	2	8	48	17	4	$138,759,227
U. of Kentucky Research Foundation	$1,200,000	8	19	134	13	15	$242,966,000
Eastern Virginia Medical School	$1,188,762	0	5	22	9	3	$30,777,000
U. of Houston	$1,127,214	1	1	22	33	5	$84,490,000
U. of Akron	$1,122,879	5	10	36	31	4	$49,597,813
U. of Texas Medical Branch	$1,108,782	2	19	136	29	10	$153,461,284
U. of Kansas	$1,100,168	2	10	74	72	4	$197,797,000
U. of Alabama at Huntsville	$1,024,247	10	3	8	8	1	$65,320,000
Washington State U. Research Foundation	$1,010,047	2	15	128	74	6	$140,862,174
Miami U. (Ohio)	$1,009,100	0	0	4	2	1	$29,825,907
East Carolina U.	$915,311	1	2	10	7	4	$16,192,000
Medical U. of South Carolina	$862,107	2	3	42	16	0	$161,162,346
Colorado State U.	$804,680	3	32	85	71	9	$302,612,943
U. of Toledo	$696,293	3	12	85	34	5	$59,583,000
U. of Connecticut	$691,561	3	17	82	30	23	$161,336,207
U. of Arizona	$690,190	6	37	193	68	19	$547,197,359
U. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences	$677,262	0	1	54	15	10	$115,537,862
Auburn U.	$675,132	1	14	54	67	12	$146,984,000
U. of Cincinnati	$582,697	0	21	119	32	8	$211,393,081
U. of New Mexico	$563,194	6	21	57	76	11	$197,628,506
U. of Delaware	$554,928	0	4	32	76	12	$166,370,000
Rice U.	$530,730	2	35	54	96	34	$83,562,362
U. of Miami	$526,143	0	3	59	73	4	$325,300,000
Utah State U.	$524,316	0	11	70	20	6	$148,257,000
Michigan Technological U.	$523,624	2	10	81	23	8	$60,356,000
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	$517,964	1	10	56	48	20	$63,197,369
Northeastern U.	$444,412	2	9	34	71	3	$56,727,549
Mississippi State U.	$428,362	4	1	45	15	7	$210,951,000
San Diego State U.	$381,661	0	10	N/A	9	1	$106,850,421
Temple U.	$379,901	0	0	26	5	4	$150,376,036
U. of Hawaii	$359,525	0	1	33	66	11	$211,778,184
Kent State U.	$351,680	0	6	25	25	8	$18,444,358
U. of Rhode Island	$344,642	0	2	9	38	4	$60,700,000
U. of Maryland at Baltimore	$343,047	2	26	148	64	13	$377,418,000
U. of Idaho	$335,243	0	2	27	15	2	$81,532,163
New Jersey Institute of Technology	$333,527	0	79	170	43	11	$89,792,000
U. of Oklahoma system	$330,066	1	4	46	32	18	$158,936,770
U. of Central Florida	$327,176	2	8	55	0	57	$108,000,000
U. of Arkansas at Fayetteville	$302,536	1	9	N/A	8	4	$110,875,000
Lehigh U.	$299,238	N/A	N/A	10	13	0	$45,637,000
Drexel U.	$295,800	4	13	42	93	8	$102,209,005
Medical College of Georgia Research Institute	$290,204	0	8	34	53	1	$57,085,169
Montana State U.	$272,828	2	46	153	21	9	$96,150,553
U. of Notre Dame	$259,990	0	6	21	39	4	$103,300,000
U. of New Hampshire	$239,059	0	11	85	6	5	$98,820,786
U. of Texas at Arlington	$222,475	2	3	15	42	8	$66,610,535
U. of South Carolina	$210,000	5	17	52	99	5	$185,197,907
U. of North Carolina at Greensboro	$200,744	2	5	11	5	2	$33,125,843
Florida Atlantic U.	$198,880	0	1	10	N/A	2	$43,249,100
U. of Vermont	$184,693	5	11	38	12	5	$90,642,167
New Mexico State U.	$177,944	0	3	20	15	1	$120,323,370
U. of Louisville	$142,321	3	11	43	53	6	$164,123,000
U. of Northern Iowa	$117,750	0	4	8	9	1	$30,257,222
Ball State U.	$112,443	1	3	18	4	0	$20,388,000
U. of North Carolina at Charlotte	$109,360	3	2	34	42	6	$29,808,055
George Mason U.	$104,007	5	13	19	38	5	$79,883,243
Medical College of Wisconsin Research Foundation	$100,264	1	5	50	6	4	$134,200,000
Stevens Institute of Technology	$100,250	2	7	21	12	3	$29,134,765
U. of Nevada at Reno	$97,553	0	4	21	N/A	N/A	$74,638,418
U. of Mississippi	$81,173	3	6	20	4	6	$54,709,000
U. of Maryland-Baltimore County	$72,927	0	1	29	22	9	$66,801,421
West Virginia U.	$72,240	1	11	20	25	3	$154,382,000
Louisiana Tech U.	$55,600	1	9	12	18	6	$19,406,000
U. of North Texas Health Science Center	$48,622	0	7	24	5	2	$31,895,377
U. of Alabama	$38,163	3	5	10	21	4	$32,846,000
Florida International U.	$9,423	0	0	2	15	0	$74,607,044
Bowling Green State U.	$8,000	0	2	0	7	0	$10,712,000
U. of Maryland Biotechnology Institute	$1,098	0	8	56	60	7	$43,213,024
Duquesne U.	$0	0	1	0	2	1	$13,200,000
Portland State U.	$0	0	2	5	9	2	$40,146,879
U. of North Florida	$0	0	0	0	3	1	$3,156,557
U. of South Dakota	$0	0	0	0	2	0	$22,742,000
U. of West Florida	$0	0	1	4	0	0	$14,473,022
North Carolina State U.	N/A	5	69	684	106	37	$366,137,000
Western Michigan U.	N/A	0	1	6	6	0	$23,564,000
Note: N/A means data were not provided by the institution. Institutions do not always receive patents in the same year in which they apply for them.
Source: Association of University Technology Managers