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.
US and Global Patents
Fiscal Year 2025
Active Start-ups
(10 launched)
Fiscal Year 2025
in Licensing Revenue
Fiscal Year 2025
New Inventions
Fiscal Year 2025
Research and Innovation News
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.
A Rutgers-led study finds that teenagers who followed influencers or watched beauty tutorials reported using more personal care items.
A Rutgers mineralogist and planetary scientist helps NASA develop a limit for future astronauts.
Rutgers researcher finds intervention program more than doubled the proportion of initially unwilling participants to consider temporary firearm storage out of their homes.
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