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Inventions, Startups, & Commercialization
Driving a Culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Rutgers through technology transfer.
Available Technologies
Looking for an invention or technology to commercialize? Explore our portfolio of technologies available for licensing.
Email us at marketingbd@research.rutgers.edu for questions and partnership opportunities.
What We Do
Staffed by scientists and IP experts with industry experience, the Office for Research is dedicated to transforming research at Rutgers into products, services, and partnerships for the public good, generating value for the University and New Jersey. We do this through technology transfer, guiding your research from proof of concept through patenting, licensing, and commercialization, while also evaluating the potential for a startup as a vehicle to bring your innovations to the market. If a startup option is selected, we will assist you with the planning and development that lead to a spin-out of your innovation. We will also provide mentoring, access to early-stage seed funding, support in obtaining dilutive/non-dilutive funding, assistance with product and business development, and connection to industry and potential business founders.
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From Ideas to Impact
Tech Transfer's purpose is to partner with the Rutgers community to encourage deliberate innovation, protect and leverage Rutgers intellectual property, foster collaboration with industry, and enable entrepreneurship.
153
US and Global Patents
Fiscal Year 2025
100
Active Start-ups
(10 launched)
Fiscal Year 2025
$15M+
in Licensing Revenue
Fiscal Year 2025
203
New Inventions
Fiscal Year 2025
Research and Innovation News
A Rutgers-led international collaboration has identified 36 genes that substantially raise the risk for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and chronic tic disorders – providing what two researchers said is the most detailed biological understanding of how these conditions develop – and how they might eventually be treated.
Regular aerobic exercise – the kind that gets your heart pumping – can improve important thinking skills called executive functions, and the benefits appear especially strong for women after menopause, according to Rutgers researchers. Executive functions help you plan, switch between tasks, stay focused and maintain independence. These skills often feel more difficult during and after the menopause transition.
A study involving Rutgers researchers suggests violence prevention programs should give adolescents and younger adults safer strategies and more support. Nearly three-quarters of young people who witnessed or became aware of a firearm-related danger tried to help in some way, but many felt their efforts had little impact, according to researchers at Rutgers University, nonpartisan research institute NORC at the University of Chicago and the University of New Hampshire.
Ten research teams representing all four Rutgers Chancellor-led Units are the recipients of the 2026 Rutgers Innovation Awards.
Rutgers researchers find frequent recreational and youth-oriented themes, but limited safety information, in Instagram marketing.
Lumber made from recycled plastic bottles, coffee cups, and other plastics, that is strong enough to support 120-ton trains. New varieties of oysters that have become an important part of the worldwide aquaculture industry. Both innovations were developed at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and both will be recipients of 2026 Edison Patent Awards.
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