Association of University Technology Managers

The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) was formed to promote and monitor technology transfer policies. AUTM’s current activities include publication of an influential annual survey of technological innovation at U.S. and Canadian universities. Counterpart organizations have also been created in Australia, and the U.K., among other countries. AUTM superseded the Society of University Patent Administrators (SUPA), created by universities in 1974 to promote more effective technology transfer. AUTM currently represents many institutions that currently participate in technology transfer activities, and these include more 350 universities, research institutions, teaching hospitals and government agencies, all of which conduct research and produce cutting-edge technological innovations, and hundreds of companies that manage and license further commercial development of these research results.