Texas A&M University is the flagship of The Texas A&M University System, a public research university in College Station whose commercialization path runs through Texas A&M Innovation and a system licensing office that posted its highest disclosure count in five years.
The university reported $1.433 billion in research expenditures for fiscal year 2025, up $39 million, or 2.8%, from 2024. That total, reported to the NSF HERD survey, includes the College Station flagship, Texas A&M Health Science Center, the Galveston and Qatar campuses, and research through system agencies. Federal funding was $562 million. Institutional funds were $420 million. State and local funds were $322 million. Fiscal year 2024 expenditures of $1.394 billion ranked Texas A&M 13th among public U.S. research universities and 22nd among 681 degree-granting institutions.
Commercialization for the system runs through Texas A&M Innovation. In fiscal year 2025 the office processed 271 invention disclosures, the highest in five years, executed 67 license and option agreements, received 67 U.S. patents, launched nine startups, and generated $8 million in licensing revenue. Gross intellectual-property revenue to the system was $8,107,986, plus $947,445 in patent reimbursement.
- Two paths
A license to an existing company, or a startup formed on system-owned intellectual property. Patents on system-owned inventions are filed through Texas A&M Innovation. - Advancing Discovery to Market
A university gap-funding program. In the first stage of its second full year, it awarded $3.4 million to 17 research teams at Texas A&M University, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.
Investors and founders can reach Texas A&M Innovation through the office. Angela K. Wilson is vice president for research.
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