Welcome to the Web site of the Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC), a unit under the Division of Research at the University of Maryland.

OTC’s Web site is a gateway to the University’s technology transfer and commercialization endeavors. Here you will find invaluable resources for inventors, licensees, business, government and industry representatives, faculty, staff and students. You can also learn more about OTC and our activities by reviewing our performance charts, technologies currently available for licensing and start-up company listings. Keep abreast of the latest happenings at Maryland and at OTC by watching the ‘News and Notes’ section of our home page

OTC encourages you to thoroughly browse our Web site. In doing so we hope you will discover that now is the time to be involved in the exciting research, licensing and commercialization activities that are taking place right here at the University of Maryland. Your involvement could result in the next big technology breakthrough, a new high-tech product or service of the future or possibly even the base technology for the University’s next start-up company.

After you’ve had a look around, please take a moment to give us your comments and feedback. In particular, please let us know what other information you would like OTC to provide on this site. OTC can also be reached by phone at 301-405-3947 or by e-mail at: otc@umd.edu.