• The ETF committee shall solicit and identify proposals by public institutions of higher education for:
  • Creating new research superiority
  • Attracting existing research superiority from institutions not located in this state
  • Enhancing existing research superiority by attracting from outside this state additional researchers and resources.

Priority shall be given to Research Superiority Acquisition of Talent proposals that:

• Involve scientific or technical fields that have a reasonable probability of enhancing this state's national and global economic competitiveness
• May result in a medical or scientific breakthrough
• Are interdisciplinary
• Have attracted or may attract federal and other funding for research superiority
• Are likely to create a nationally or internationally recognized locus of research superiority.

Research Superiority Acquisition of Talent application process

• Applicants (public institutions of higher education) may submit applications requesting a research superiority grant to bring world class or nationally recognized researchers and their associates to this state.
• All applications must be sponsored by the applicant's president and the board of regents chairperson.
• Research superiority applications will be submitted to the Office of the Governor for processing.
• The ETF committee shall make recommendations, through evaluation processes, to the Governor, Lt. Governor and Speaker (Leadership).
• The Leadership must come to unanimous support for the project to be awarded ETF grant funds.

Submit applications to:

Office of the Governor
Emerging Technology Fund
Attn: Mark M. Ellison or Alan Kirchhoff
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, TX 78711