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Inventions & Commercialization

Driving a Culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Rutgers through technology transfer.

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.

160
Global Patents Issued

Fiscal Year 2023

102
Active Startups

Fiscal Year 2023

$12.7 Million
in Licensing Revenue

Fiscal Year 2023

160
Invention Disclosures

Fiscal Year 2023

Research and Innovation News

A cluster of trees in a rainforest

The challenge posed by organizers of the XPRIZE Rainforest competition to the international scientific community was formidable: devise a way to document the biodiversity within a remote Amazonian rainforest without stepping foot within, design a tent-size, portable laboratory that includes miniature versions of the advanced equipment necessary to conduct rapid genetic analysis, and complete the field work, analysis and written summary in 72 hours.