Tulsa Research Partners

Tulsa Research Partners has three main objectives: 1) to encourage and support collaborative, multidisciplinary research among colleges, universities, and private sector research groups; 2) to facilitate technology transfer relating to a “Grow Your Own” start up company culture in the Tulsa region and 3) to attract new, major research dollars to the region.

This independent research consortium was created to impact multidisciplinary collaborations and to award research grants to support technology development projects in software, IT cyber-security, advanced materials, telecom, bio-life and alternative energy sciences.

These grants have significant impact on the willingness of federal agencies to fund innovative research centers at research universities in the region. The grants aim to create long-term partnerships between Tulsa companies and the colleges, universities and technical training centers. These grants will develop and deploy technologies that lead to growing the region’s economy in areas complementary to these educational and training resources.

Tulsa Research Partners focuses on collaborative research opportunities sponsored by the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa, Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, University of Tulsa, Tulsa Community College, Northeastern State University, other education institutions and private sector and corporate research groups. Tulsa Research Partners will achieve its goals through strategic investments in distinguished scholars, research laboratories and equipment, national centers for research and technology transfer programs.

Tulsa Research Partners, in compliance with the Economic Development Generating Excellence (EDGE) mandate will: 1) Increase R&D productivity; 2) Commercialize more technology and create more high-technology businesses with higher paying jobs; and 3) Attract more federal R&D dollars into Oklahoma’s economy.