Welcome to our new website for UVM faculty, staff, and students. The new site reflects many of the suggestions we received during our telephone survey of UVM inventors.
Some of the online tools you'll find here did not exist when we developed our previous internal site. We believe these new tools offer you better ways to collaborate with the OTT staff and get the information and assistance you need.
Please take a few moments to browse the site, and let us know your thoughts about it. Remember, we developed it to serve your needs, and we hope you'll find it easy to use, convenient, and worthy of repeat visits.
Among the new features to explore:
Convenient Lists of External Resources
We've updated and simplified our External Resources page and added a printable PDF file that lists all the resources and their URLs.
Current OTT News
The What's New page you're reading now will provide updates on recent UVM licensing activity and other noteworthy OTT events.
Interactive PDFs
You can now fill out and submit electronic tech transfer process and funding forms that require no special computer files, technical resources, or accounts. This free service reduces OTT turnaround time and paper use, and allows you to save, revise, print, and digitally sign the completed forms.
You'll find all the instructions you need on this site.
Pre-Disclosure Form
A Pre-Disclosure form is an optional tool that helps you gather and organize the information we need to evaluate your invention. You can submit to OTT for an informal review or bring it with you to a meeting with OTT staff.
Comprehensive FAQ Page
Our FAQ page now answers more questions and is organized logically, following the sequence of steps in the tech transfer process.
Internally Scrolling Pages
As you scroll through the text on each page, the navigation bar remains visible. Use the arrow keys or drag bar next to the text window or, after placing your pointer within the text window, use the trackball or scroll wheel on your mouse.
If you want to print all of the content in a page, just click on the "Show All/Print All" link at the top of the text window. Click again to restore the scroller.
Schematic Diagram
Our schematic diagram is designed to help everyone, especially those new to UVM's community of inventors, understand the major steps in the tech transfer process. Each level of the diagram clicks through to a plain-language description of the relevant step.
Policies & Guidelines Page
The Policies & Guidelines page categorizes and links to information you'll need from several UVM websites, such as the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP), the Committee on Human Research, and the Institutional Biosafety Committee.
A new Hardwick-based soy products company is profiled in the April 2, 2008 issue of the Boston Globe. Ideas for researching the viability of soybean agriculture in Vermont were developed by Dr. Ming Ruo Guo of the UVM Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences. A UVM Agricultural Innovations grant provided startup funding.