Texas A&M University officials today outlined plans to strengthen and enhance research initiatives designed to promote economic development, industry partnerships, commercialization opportunities and student-faculty innovation.
“One way we fulfill the university’s land-grant mission is to ensure that discoveries resulting from important scientific and technological research that transpires on our campus are made available as broadly as possible through research commercialization and outreach,” said Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin.
“Public-private research partnerships also help place students in direct contact with industries that can hire them after graduation. Last year the number of organizations that had representatives visit Texas A&M to recruit students increased by 110 percent, and in the fall of 2010, at the height of the recession, approximately 1,500 companies competed for Texas A&M graduates,” Loftin added. “We are firmly committed to further enhancing these partnerships, which we believe are important to the future of our state, nation and world.”
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