The Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust is a private non-profit organization created in 2004 to encourage and promote innovation, transfer and commercialization of technology and creation of jobs in the technology sector, based in San Juan,

Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and unincorporated ...

. The Trust is instrumental in setting Puerto Rico's public policy for

science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...

technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and Reproducibility, reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in me ...

, research and development. The Trust provides funding to new small businesses that have a technology-based business plan. The Trust has helped inventors get their patents issued. The director of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Transfer Office, as of 2019, is David Gulley. The goal of the Transfer office is to help Puerto Rico monetize science.

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Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust official site
2004 establishments in Puerto Rico Organizations established in 2004 Research institutes in Puerto Rico Charitable trusts San Juan, Puerto Rico {{Puerto-Rico-stub