Last year, technology transfer activities in UC San Diego generated over $8.9 million in royalties and other revenues and attracted over $5.7 million to support further research on the technologies. The Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Services Office (TTIPS) manages inventions and copyrights of works created at UC San Diego, files patent applications, registers trademarks, negotiates licenses, and provides services related to intellectual property issues. Since 1995, TTIPS supported the creation of 35 start-up companies with UC San Diego innovations; and has granted to the private sector 50 licenses in the greater San Diego-Southern California area, 67 in California, 99 in the United States, and a total of 107 worldwide

To date, some 150 San Diego companies have been founded by faculty and graduates of UC San Diego, or on technology that was developed on campus. At least 63 of those 150 are biomedical companies.

To date, UC San Diego has graduated 80,000 students, more than 40,000 of whom are gainfully employed in the San Diego job market. More than 3,000 new graduates are added every year. A survey of last year¯s alumni, taken six months after graduation, found that they were earning an average of $31,059 per annum; new alumni employed in technical fields were earning, on average, $43,046 per annum.