Board of Regents: 2015 Economic Development and Technology Transfer Report, October 21-22, 2015

In FY 2015, Iowa’s public universities received $1.02 billion in total sponsored funding. For FY 2015, the Iowa General Assembly provided $8.8 million in total funding for ongoing and innovation activities at the regent universities. As a result, the universities increased new intellectual property disclosures by 11 percent from 261 disclosures in FY 2014 to 291 in FY 2015. In addition, a total of 3,603 individuals were employed by the 156 companies located at the SUI, ISU and UNI research parks and business incubators, an increase of 12 companies and 348 jobs over FY 2014