NTDUG08 Guide to Research Foundation Records Research Foundation Records Finding Aid prepared by Ariana Burns University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives 2023
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-07-13. Description is written in: English, Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives Research Foundation Records UG 08 1 cubic feet minutes of meetings, correspondence, financial records 1947-1967 Minutes of meetings, correspondence, and financial records. English .

The Idaho Research Foundation, Inc. (IRF), is a private nonprofit corporation organized for the purpose of supporting research at the university. Its principal activity is licensing technologies resulting from academic research to the private sector. The IRF identifies and protects the intellectual property developed at the University of Idaho and transfers it to the private sector through licensing agreements in order to secure support for and further develop the university's academic, research, and service responsibilities. The IRF also disseminates scientific knowledge and technical information and encourages and assists researchers and inventors by providing the means by which their scientific discoveries may be patented, copyrighted, developed, and applied. The transfer of technology generated through UI research turns society's investment into new products and industrial processes, thus increasing Idaho's competitiveness as well as the nations. It was founded in 1947.

Transferred in 1980 (UA 1980-019.

Idaho Research Foundations' bylaws, meeting minutes, correspondence, and financial records. There is also patent information a list of U of I copywritten songs and patent applications from 1947-1967.

Collection is open for research.

Author, Description or "Title" of item, date. Collection name, collection number, box, folder. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, Moscow, ID.

 Research grants--Idaho Patents Idaho Records Articles of Incorporation 2 items 1947 1 1 Minutes I 7 items 1948-1958 1 2 Minutes II 5 items 1959-1962 1 3 Minutes III 5 items 1963-1967 1 4 Accounts and Bank Book 25 items 1958-1965 1 5 Income Tax Returns 26 items 1949-1967 1 6 Patent Policy Survey 23 items 1946-1958 1 7 Patent Policy Committee Correspondence 25 items 1946-1958 1 8 Research Corporation 26 items 1951-1962 2 9 Research Corporation Patent Management 19 items 1951-1966 2 10 Beattie - Telemetry Equipment 35 items 1958-1962 2 11 Copyrighted Songs 43 items 1948-1950 2 12 Humphrey - Potato Digger 43 items 1948-1954 2 13 New Flowers 10 items 1955-1956 2 14 Reiser - Potato Starch Binder 8 items 1951-1953 2 15 Wiese - Chick Growth Factor 26 items 1953-1958 2 16 Other Patent Applications 15 items 1949-1961 2 17