Texas Emerging Technology Fund - Research Superiority Acquisition Awards

The ETF Research Superiority Acquisition goal is to bring the best and brightest researchers in the world to Texas. This enables our Texas academic institutions to continue to build expertise in key research areas, attract and encourage students to pursue advanced degrees in math, sciences, and engineering, and provide an invaluable resource to the community, especially fostering innovation and commercialization in our companies. Priority for ETF Research Superiority Acquisition is given to proposals that involve scientific or technical fields that have a reasonable probability of enhancing this state's national and global economic competitiveness, may result in a medical or scientific breakthrough, are interdisciplinary, have or may attract federal and other outside funding for research superiority, and are likely to create a nationally or internationally recognized locus of research superiority.

Preference is given to Research Superiority Acquisition proposals that have a high likelihood of supporting commercialization in key areas for Texas. To be eligible for this award, the institution must commit to acquiring a new or enhancing existing research superiority (talent) at a Texas public institution of higher education and be sponsored by the institution's president and the board of regents chairperson.