tech transfer

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Sandia Labs takes home three national tech transfer awards

February 4, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) 2016 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for a decontamination product that neutralizes chemical and biological agents and for software that helps emergency responders disable improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Business development specialist Bianca Thayer was named Outstanding Technology...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, collaboration, commercialization, economic impact, flc, national labs, tech transfer

Researchers offer consulting to companies that license Sandia inventions

November 5, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a boost to technology transfer, Sandia National Laboratories has launched a program that lets researchers consult for companies that license their Sandia work. “There is a need for this. We hear often in the business community that it would help a lot if our people could...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, economic development, licensing, national labs, small business, tech transfer

DOE aims to boost economy through national lab tech transfer

October 29, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is intensifying efforts to move technology developed at the national laboratories into the private sector to boost the economy and create jobs, says the acting director of the department’s new Office of Technology Transitions. “Tech transfer is a mission of the...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, DOE, economic development, economic impact, national labs, tech transfer

New Mexico small businesses prosper with technical help

September 29, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ski bums need fuel to schuss down mountains day in and day out. Their go-to snack is an energy bar, a backpack staple. “We need something that is quick, healthy, sustaining and cheap,” said Kyle Hawari of Taos, New Mexico. But taste matters too. “We humans crave...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: collaboration, economic development, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, small business, tech transfer

Sandia Labs takes home regional tech transfer awards

August 17, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has won four regional awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. One award honored business development specialist Bianca Thayer as Technology Transfer Professional of the Year. Sandia technologies recognized by the FLC’s Far West/Mid-Continent regions...

Categories: Awards, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, economic development, economic impact, flc, national labs, tech transfer

Sandia tamper-detecting seal is tough to fool

July 7, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A critical area of security is ensuring that something inside a container stays there. Sandia National Laboratories has made the job easier with an innovative technology that detects signs of tampering. “In our world, one advance by an adversary can make a security technology obsolete overnight,” said...

Categories: Cybersecurity, Homeland security, Nonproliferation, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, cargo, container, cybersecurity, Homeland security, sealing, tamper detection, tech transfer

Sandia helps small security company thwart thieves

May 19, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — At a motorcycle shop on a busy city street, crooks devised an elaborate scheme to steal from the storage yard. They jumped the fence and unpacked some newly arrived bikes from crates. They used the crates to build a ramp and run the motorcycles over and out....

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, security, small business, tech transfer

Sandia Labs anthrax detector takes home national technology transfer award

February 12, 2015 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories scientists, from left, Jason Harper, Melissa Finley and Thayne Edwards with a BaDx anthrax detector. The three were recognized by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for their work in commercializing t…

Categories: Homeland security, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: anthrax detection, Aquila, awards, BaDx, business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, Federal Laboratory Consortium, flc, International Biological Threat Reduction, partnerships, small business, tech transfer

Linde, Sandia partnership looks to expand hydrogen fueling network

December 17, 2014 • LIVERMORE, CALIF. — Sandia National Laboratories and industrial gas giant Linde LLC have signed an umbrella Cooperative Research & Development Agreement (CRADA) that is expected to accelerate the development of low-carbon energy and industrial technologies, beginning w…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact, Transportation

Topics: California Energy Commission, EERE, fuel cell, Linde, NFPA, tech transfer

Sandia Science & Technology Park fuels economy with jobs, tax revenue

November 19, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The $2.3 billion worth of economic activity generated by the Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) since it was established in 1998 has produced more than $89 million in tax revenue for the state of New Mexico and $12.9 million for the city of Albuquerque in the...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, business park, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, research park, Sandia Science & Technology Park, tech transfer

Sandia Labs plans partnership center to boost collaboration, tech transfer

October 3, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will pursue a Center for Collaboration and Commercialization to strengthen partnerships, technology transfer and ties to the community. The center, known as C3, will support the city of Albuquerque’s and the University of New Mexico’s Innovation District and Innovate ABQ initiatives. C3 will offer...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, commercialization, community, economic development, economic impact, entrepreneurship, innovation, intellectual property, licensing, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, small business, tech transfer, technology

Showcase to spur commercialization of Sandia technologies

September 16, 2014, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A showcase that brought Sandia National Laboratories’ cutting-edge research and technology to the community the past two years has a new look and target audience. Instead of an annual daylong gathering open to the public, the re-envisioned Sandia Technology Showcase will become a yearlong series of events...

Categories: Media advisories, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, commercialization, economic development, economic impact, entrepreneurs, intellectual property, investors, IP, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, showcase, small business, tech transfer, technology

Moly 99 reactor using Sandia design could lead to U.S. supply of isotope to track disease

June 16, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque startup company has licensed a Sandia National Laboratories technology that offers a way to make molybdenum-99, a key radioactive isotope needed for diagnostic imaging in nuclear medicine, in the United States. Known as moly 99, it is made in aging nuclear reactors outside the country,...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, diagnostic imaging, DOE, economic development, economic impact, engineers, licensing, molybdenum-99, national laboratories, national labs, nuclear medicine, partnerships, radioisotopes, reactor, research, startup, tech transfer, technology

Licensing executive named distinguished fellow by international organization

June 5, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Craig Smith, a licensing and business development specialist at Sandia National Laboratories, has been selected as a distinguished fellow by the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) and its Chemicals, Energy, Environment and Materials (CEEM…

Categories: Awards, HR / Personnel, Operations / Budget

Topics: intellectual property, licensing, Licensing Executives Society International, tech transfer

Scientists help entrepreneurs make business dreams come true

May 12, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bill Watts knows a thing or two about data-center computers. One is that they’re dangerous to move. “A server cabinet is 8 feet tall with 3,500 pounds of equipment,” he said. “If it starts to tip over, there’s no way you can stop it.” Watts, an Intel...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: assistance, awards, business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, engineers, entrepreneurs, innovation, national laboratories, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, research, small business, tech transfer, technology

Tech transfer program shares Sandia’s science, creates jobs for two decades

April 24, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For 20 years, Sandia National Laboratories researchers have been able to leave to start or join small companies, knowing they can return. Their work has made a difference: creating jobs, bringing Sandia expertise into the private sector and boosting economic development, a new survey shows. “The Entrepreneurial...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, engineers, entrepreneurship, national laboratories, national labs, research, small business, tech transfer, technology

Pocket-sized anthrax detector aids global agriculture

April 17, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A credit-card-sized anthrax detection cartridge developed at Sandia National Laboratories and recently licensed to a small business makes testing safer, easier, faster and cheaper. Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that causes anthrax, is commonly found in soils all over the world and can cause serious, and often fatal,...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: anthrax detection, Aquila, BaDx, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, International Biological Threat Reduction, partnerships, small business, tech transfer

Entrepreneur teams with Sandia scientists to bring life-saving vaccines to far reaches of the world

March 25, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Getting life-saving vaccines to the most remote parts of the world is no easy feat. Biopharmaceuticals are highly sensitive to heat and cold and can perish if their temperature shifts a few degrees. “The vast majority of the world’s population lives in areas where electricity and refrigeration...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Chemistry, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Cargo security partnership takes home national tech transfer award

March 10, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and two collaborators won the national Federal Laboratory Consortium’s 2014 Interagency Partnership Award. The award recognizes agency and/or laboratory employees from at least two organizations who together did outstanding work in transferring technology. The winning partnership included Sandia, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems...

Categories: Awards, Homeland security, Technology transfer / Economic Impact, Transportation

Topics: awards, business, collaboration, defense, economic development, economic impact, engineers, flc, Homeland security, military, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, tech transfer

Agreement lets Sandia, UNM staff work side-by-side

February 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has launched a new kind of collaboration designed to strengthen its research bonds with the University of New Mexico (UNM). “This is another sign of the close and deepening partnership between two of the pre-eminent research institutions in the state,” Sandia Vice President and...

Categories: Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, community, economic development, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, tech transfer, technology, University of New Mexico, unm

Sandia Labs wins five regional FLC tech transfer awards

October 24, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won five regional awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC’s Far West/Mid-Continent regions gave Outstanding and Notable Technology Development awards to Sandia’s: SpinDx medical diagnostic tool; Sandia Cooler, which reduces energy to cool...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, flc, Homeland security, medical, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, tech transfer, technology

Sandia showcase shines a light on research and tech transfer

September 4, 2013, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will again take its cutting-edge research and technology to the community at a daylong event that will also spotlight intellectual property and how to do business with the labs through licensing, partnership agreements, procurement and economic development programs. The second annual Sandia Research &...

Categories: Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, community, economic development, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, showcase, small business, tech transfer, technology

Ready-to-sign license speeds up Sandia tech transfer

July 29, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is building a portfolio of intellectual property (IP) that can be licensed by businesses in as little as an hour. “This is the simplest process possible,” said Sandia business development specialist Bob Westervelt, who helped create the ready-to-sign licensing program that businesses can access...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic development, national labs, partnerships, small business, tech transfer, technology licensing

Sandia researchers bring lab experience to world of business

March 28, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Three Sandia National Laboratories workers were recognized for taking technology out of the labs and into the private sector. Laurence Brown, Matt Donnelly and Jim Pacheco received Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards for their participation in a Sandia program that encourages researchers to take jobs at startup or expanding...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, community, economic development, energy, engineers, entrepreneur, materials science, materirals science, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, small business, solar, tech transfer, technology

Caterpillar, Sandia CRADA opens door to multiple research projects

March 26, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories and industrial giant Caterpillar Inc. have signed their first umbrella Cooperative Research & Development Agreement (CRADA), opening the door to a wide range of scientific research. “This agreement will lead to an expanded relationship with Caterpillar,” said Vic Weiss, the Sandia business development specialist...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, computer, computing, CRADA, economic development, national laboratories, national labs, partnership, research, Sandia, tech transfer, technology

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