Faculty are allowed to participate in nearly all of the programs run by <u>CNVE</u> which also enables them to be introduced to and educated in entrepreneurship, and there are numerous institutions that provide commercialization of research. For example, the Office of Texas A&M System Technology Commericialization assists faculty in taking their research outside the university in the form of inventions and startups.
The [http://vpr.tamu.edu/about <u>The Division of Research</u> ] at A&M is a library of resources in the university and surrounding network. They accept grant proposals and funnel research opportunities to the correct institutions (most of which are listed under Entrepreneurship and Funding Resources). [[http://vpr.tamu.edu/about http://vpr.tamu.edu/about]]
= University Technology Transfer Function =