FIU Research Foundation??

[FIUGoldenPanther]

I was wondering if FIU has a research foundation setup like pretty much every other university. To assist faculty, staff and students with research support, particularly in connection with patentable inventions.

Other universities use it to generate external sponsors to arrange royalty-producing licenses for intellectual property (e.g. patents, copyrights) resulting from the school's research.

I did a search on the US Patent website and found only 10 patents from FIU compared to 1031 from UF and 42 from nearby FAU. Both UF and FAU have a research foundation that funded pretty much all their patents that are located there. The patents by FIU were funded by the BOT. That is ridiculous that a school like FIU does not have a foundation of that sort in place. How can everyone in the country take us seriously if we are not investing in research projects done here.

I know first hand that we are losing out on huge research projects. Due to us losing grants from associations like the NSF because in order to receive a grant that is accepted from the NSF. FIU has to match it.

Patent Database
patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html

UF Research Foundation
www.rgp.ufl.edu/ufrf/

FAU Research Foundation
www.fau.edu/research/faurc/index.php

FSU Research Foundation
www.research.fsu.edu/foundation/index.html

USF Reseach Foundation
www.research.usf.edu/rf/

Now where is FIU's?

[FIUMAN]

I have always believed that research is great all around. It gives the school more recognition and opens up more relevant jobs for students in their area of study amongst other things.

[TrueBlue]

good find I'll try to pass this along to some higher ups

[FIUEngineer]

Here is a link to some research projects done at FIU www.fiu.edu/docs/research.htm Yes a research foundation will help to gain and keep more research projects here at FIU. Which will benefit the whole University.