FY2024 Licensing Survey
Welcome to the 2024 AUTM Licensing Activity Survey. For more than three decades, the survey has been tech transfer's most comprehensive benchmark report on licensing income, patents, startups and more.
Key Dates
| December 2, 2024 |
US and Canadian Surveys open |
| March 28, 2025 |
US Survey closes |
| May 30, 2025 |
Canadian Survey closes |
| June 2025 |
Survey data published |
Survey Toolkit
Before you begin your submission, you may find our Survey Toolkit helpful for gathering and organizing the data you will need.
Key Metrics
As always, we encourage you to answer all the questions. Without your data, the picture of our industry is not complete. If you're unable to respond to all the questions, please add your data to these key metrics:
- (Q3.1) What were your TOTAL RESEARCH EXPENDITURES?
- (Q4.1) How many DISCLOSURES were received?
- (Q4.6) How many NEW PATENT APPLICATIONS were filed?
- (Q4.13) How many US PATENTS ISSUED in 2024?
- (Q5.1) How many TOTAL LICENSES did your institution execute?
- (Q5.3) How many TOTAL OPTIONS did your institution execute?
- (Q6.4) What was the TOTAL LICENSE INCOME received at your institution?
- (Q6.5) How much of the license income received was attributed to RUNNING ROYALTIES?
- (Q8.1) How many STARTUPS were formed that were dependent upon the licensing of your institution's technology for their initiation?
What's New
- A new question focused on amendments that matter to today's tech transfer offices
- Instructions and definitions that have been thoroughly and thoughtfully revamped for clarity and relevance, based on feedback from past Survey participants
- Migration of the STATT database to a new platform
We're preparing to migrate all data from the STATT database — more than three decades of Licensing Survey metrics — to the same platform as the questionnaire, which will vastly expand users' options for benchmarking against personalized peer groups and tracking trends over time. The new platform will be launched with the publication of the FY2024 data.
Questions
Still have questions about the survey? Contact Katie Ventrice, AUTM Administrative & Membership Associate, at kventrice@autm.net or +1-202-960-1800.