UTEK (R) Corporation, based in Tampa, Florida, provides over 2,000 businesses, universities, and research laboratories worldwide with technology transfer services. The firm employs its U2B (R) process in optimizing business development projects. The company also offers clients intellectual property search and analysis services. UTEK's Scientific Advisory Council evaluates technologies. The company has transferred energy, environmental, homeland defense, software, communications, metal fatigue detection, leak detection, and other physical science technologies from research centers to businesses. It also has transferred medical imaging, nutraceutical, drug delivery, and other life sciences systems. The firm has supported the commercialization of over 95 technologies, including power conversion, immunoassay point-of-care testing, circuit protection device, chain lubrication, fluid management, plasma etch, ethanol/diesel fuel, genetic testing, and stem cell purification products. UTEK has formed alliances with Auburn University, the California Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College, Haifa University, the Jet Propulsion Lab, Johns Hopkins University, New York University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Yale University, and other institutions. UTEK maintains additional offices in the United Kingdom and Israel. The company holds stakes in 60 publicly traded companies. UTEK is listed on the American Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange-AIM under the UTK symbol.