CAMPUS PROFILE GLOSSARY
November 2007
2700-2790 RESEARCH ACTIVITY
2720 Principal Investigators
Source: Office of Grants & Contracts file of principal investigators. Pre-Banner (2004 and before), only three PIs were listed for each grant, resulting in an undercount of the number of faculty involved. Post-Banner, all PIs are listed. Faculty members listed on more than one grant are counted for each grant. Grants are counted for the duration of the grant and the principal investigators are counted in their home department, not in the department sponsoring the grant application.
2740 % faculty headcount
The number of principal investigators as a percent of faculty headcount. May exceed 100% when faculty members submit multiple grants or when non-tenure system faculty submit grants.
2760 Grant & Contract Exp/Fac FTE
Expenditures in the fiscal year from grant & contract funds divided by the tenure-system faculty FTE on all funds. Because some faculty participate in grants that are attributed to a research center or institute, this may underestimate the actual grant and contract expenditures per faculty member.
2780-2790 TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
Source: Office of Technology Management (OTM) annual reports.
Data are provided by college with a summary by campus. For projects that span multiple college,
OTM counts each project in each college. We have removed these duplicates from the campus totals.
All numbers are reported on a fiscal year basis (July-June).
2782 Disclosures
The number of disclosures reported. A disclosure is the initial step where OTM identifies a product, process, or invention created on this campus with potential for commerical viability.2784 Patents filed
The number of patent applications completed and filed during the fiscal year with the assistance of OTM.2786 Patents issued
The number of patents issued by the US Patent Office during the fiscal year.2788 Licenses and options
According to the OTM annual report, "The University licenses its technologies to companies that demonstrate the capability to develop the technology into commercial products or services and the willingness to share the downstream benefit of commercial use of the technology with the University (e.g. through equity, royalties from sales, etc)." This item shows the number of licenses issued or options to license issued during the fiscal year.2790 Startups
The number of startup companies signing new license agreements during the fiscal year for technology developed at the Urbana campus.