UH transitions research park into incubator for early-stage, research-based startups

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“It’s a really cool statistic that most of the people who go to UH end up coming back or staying in the area. If we’re going to build an innovation economy in Houston, it’s going to be built by Cougar hands,” says Campbell.

But that’s not the only presence the university has in the innovation ecosystem. Over the past year, UH has transitioned its Energy Research Park — the 74-acre site that was formerly the Schlumberger headquarters — into the Technology Bridge. The strategic transformation was impart due to the fact that the research was no longer focused on energy, but Campbell says UH had another reason too.

“One of the reasons we changed the name from the Energy Research Park to the Technology Bridge is that we wanted to highlight that transition or bridge between the academic world and the market,” he says.

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UH will have a presence in the Rice University-backed innovation hub called The Ion. While the details of the arrangement of the education partners aren’t yet established, Campbell says it’s UH’s focus to be present in the new facility, whether through its startups or its innovation team’s office hours.

Great to see the universities collaborating like this. I’m hoping UH can find its way into TMC3 as well.

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