UA Technology Licensing Office Reorganizes

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Officials at the University of Arkansas and University of Arkansas System’s Division of Agriculture have reorganized the Fayetteville campus’ technology office, which now will be known as Technology Ventures.

The restructuring took effect Nov. 19, according to a UA news release issued on Monday. Jeff Amerine succeeds Lisa Childs as director of technology licensing for the university, the release stated.

Amerine joined the university as a technology licensing officer in 2008, teaches entrepreneurship in the university’s Sam M. Walton College of Business and also is an adviser to Innovate Arkansas, an initiative operated by Winrock International for the Arkansas Economic Development Commission.

Amerine said in the release he is “honored and humbled” to lead the UA’s technology commercialization efforts.

“I have never been more optimistic about the U of A’s potential to become a world-class engine for research commercialization and new venture creation,” Amerine said.

Childs, associate vice provost for research and economic development, will assume a full-time position as a manager of the intellectual property portfolio for the Division of Agriculture. The Division of Agriculture is the statewide entity of the University of Arkansas System that includes the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service.

“This plan strengthens the commercialization efforts at both the University of Arkansas and Division of Agriculture,” Jim Rankin, vice provost for research and economic development, said in the release.