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Information and Telecommunication Technology Center (ITTC)

Entities Assisting KU in Commercialization and Economic Development


KTEC's Centers of Excellence


Information and Telecommunication Technology Center (ITTC). ITTC has a research focus in six areas of communications. The Center has a portfolio of active licenses and a group of associated spin-off companies

Higuchi Biosciences Center (HBC). This Center's research focus is in biosciences and it has a portfolio of active licenses and a group of associated spin-off companies.

KTEC's Innovation Corporations


Lawrence Regional Technology Center (LRTC) is a not-for-profit business providing business development assistance supporting the formation and growth of high-technology start-up companies in Kansas. Services are targeted toward start-up businesses spun off from the University of Kansas, as well as to local entrepreneurs wanting to create high-technology firms. ITTC and the Higuchi Biosciences Center partner with LRTC identifying leading edge technologies developed at the University of Kansas that have excellent commercialization potential.

University Partnerships with Companies


Benefits to KU:

  • KU students' research focuses on real industrial problems
  • KU faculty bring the results of the latest information technology research into the class room
  • KU sees substantial overhead return
  • KU fulfills its service mission by assisting a Kansas company

Innovation at the Edge


Innovative ideas for managing intellectual property are stimulated by a university's mission in tech transfer. As a rule, universities engage in tech transfer to accomplish one or more of the following:

  1. Improve public relations with alumni and the business world
  2. Enhance economic development
  3. Generate research dollars
  4. Fulfill federal or other obligations
  5. Promote entrepreneurship
  6. Increase income

With a wide range of missions, the University of Kansas is flexible in the way it can do business: royalty-based licensing, equity from start-ups, and economic development where the payoff is an expanding tax base and generosity of successful companies in further support to the University.