The emphasis on research has lead to many examples of professors commercializing their research with the help of the university's Research and Economic Development (RED) Center. RED supports both faculty and students in securing funding, executing market research, facilitating intellectual property protection, and more.
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<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://www.ucr.edu/research/otc.html UC Riverside Office of Technology Commercialization] '''(OTC)'''The cutting edge research that is being conducted at UC Riverside produces many patentable innovations. The OTC performs marketable research on the generated intellectual property (IP) and determines appropriate companies to license the technology to. </span></span>
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