Industry
Where Academia & Industry Meet
Helping companies connect with a vibrant community of inventors and innovators—check out the great work that our faculty, graduate students, and affiliate organizations are doing.
Resources
Confidence in The Process
A guide to Securing IP
CURF offers multiple types of agreements to provide the appropriate level rights to a company for specified technologies. Before IP can be secured from Clemson, the company must complete a License Application to begin the commercialization process.
Process
Seven Steps
Licensing & Commercialization
Our process guides companies who are looking to license or commercialize proprietary intellectual property developed by inventors at Clemson University. CURF uses their resources and expertise to smoothly bring the invention to market.
Identify Technologies
A company or an individual intending to form a company identifies a technology of interest. Technologies available for licensing can be found at http://curf.technologypublisher.com.
Submit Application
Company submits a CURF Technology Licensing Application to CURF. The licensing application is available upon request.
Term Sheet
CURF will provide a term sheet outlining key license terms for review and negotiation.
Company Offer
Company makes an offer of financial consideration and commercialization due diligence/development terms and conditions.
License Agreement
CURF drafts a License Agreement based on the key terms accepted by both parties.
Execute Agreement
CURF and company execute the License Agreement.
Technology Development
Company develops and commercializes the technology.
Affiliates & Partners
Key organizations within our community that are assisting local entrepreneurs.
Impact
Inquiry Intake Form
CURF is here to connect you with the inventor and technology that meets your needs. To ensure a timely response from the appropriate CURF representative, we use an Inquiry Intake Form to prioritize and streamline processing requests related to research or technology transfer.
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Center for Advanced Fiber and Films
The Center for Advanced Fiber and Films (CAEFF) provides an integrated research and education environment for the systems-oriented study of fibers and films. To control structure in polymeric fibers and films, industries need sophisticated tools and models as well as a new generation of engineers and scientists with experimental, modeling, and visualization expertise. CAEFF will promote the transformation from trial-and-error development to computer-based design of fibers and films.
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Clemson University Advanced Materials Center
Clemson’s Advanced Materials Center is anchored by the Advanced Materials Research Laboratory (AMRL). The AMRL is home to one of the nation’s finest electron microscope facilities, which enables researchers to examine materials at the atomic level.
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Center for Advanced Power Engineering Research
As a membership drive consortium among universities and industry partners in the Southeast region of the United States, The Center for Advanced Power Engineering Research (CAPER) works to develop grid modernization technologies and improve the education opportunities for students studying electric power engineering.
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Ceramic, Composite and Optical Materials Center
The Ceramic, Composite and Optical Materials Center (CCOMC) is a cooperative research program between Clemson University and Rutgers University. Combining both Rutgers researchers’ expertise in ceramic processing and structural materials with the Clemson researchers’ expertise in synthesis of ceramic, related optical materials, and the processing of particulate materials, the CCOMC provides unique advantages to its members.
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Center for Flexible Packaging
The Center for Flexible Packaging (CEFPACK) is an extension of Clemson University’s Department of Food Nutrition and Packaging Sciences. The center provides laboratory experiences to undergraduate and graduate students at Clemson University and offers a broad range of packaging support services to industry partners.
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Center for Optical Materials Science & Engineering Technologies
An interdisciplinary unit of the College of Engineering and Science at Clemson University. COMSET provides an organized framework with significant centralized infrastructure for faculty with common interests to collaborate in developing advanced materials, devices and systems that generate, transmit, manipulate and utilize light.
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Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research
Anchored by the Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Graduate Engineering Center, CU-ICAR is working to become the premier automotive and motorsports research and education facility in the world. To date, public and private partners have invested more than $215 million in CU-ICAR.
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National Brick Research Center
The National Brick Research Center will advance the technology of clay brick materials and products, augment the education of ceramic and materials engineering students, and educate and serve individuals in the brick industry with a resultant increase and improved use of structural clay building products.
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Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design & Graphics
The Sonoco Institute was created to exploit the synergies that exist between the graphic communications and packaging science departments. It is the only university program in the country with this one-of-a-kind multidisciplinary approach to packaging as a core competency.