Thursday, June 22, 2023, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | Maeder Hall, Princeton
Commercialize Your Innovation
Driving a Culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Rutgers
About Innovation Ventures
Staffed by scientists and IP experts with industry experience, the Innovation Ventures team is dedicated to transforming research at Rutgers into products, services, and partnerships for the public good, generating value for the University and New Jersey.
As your partner, the team will guide your research from proof of concept through patenting, licensing and commercialization.
From Ideas to Impact
Our mission at Innovation Ventures is to partner with the Rutgers community to encourage deliberate innovation, protect and leverage Rutgers intellectual property, foster collaboration with industry, and enable entrepreneurship.
151
Global Patents Issued
Fiscal Year 2022
94
Active Startups
Fiscal Year 2022
$13.4 Million
in Licensing Revenue
Fiscal Year 2022
177
Invention Disclosures
Fiscal Year 2022
Available Technologies
Looking for an invention or technology to commercialize? Explore our portfolio of technologies available for licensing. Reach out to marketingbd@research.rutgers.edu for questions and partnership opportunities.
What is Innovation Ventures?
Learn more about the work of the Innovation Ventures team within Rutgers Office for Research and how we can help bring our researchers' innovations from ideas to impact.
Upcoming Events
In Case You Missed It...
Innovation Ventures Road to Commercialization Symposium Series: How to Accelerate Your Commercialization Success with Non-Dilutive Funding
This webinar explores non-dilutive funding, a financing option that allows innovators to maximize their equity or ownership, as well as the resources Innovation Ventures provides, from founders and researchers who have launched startups and successfully secured non-dilutive funding.
Innovation Ventures Road to Commercialization Symposium Series: License to an Existing Company or Launch a Startup
This webinar highlights how Innovation Ventures works with innovators to decide between launching a startup and licensing to an existing company, why a startup may be the right choice, what does it mean to be a founder of a startup and the available resources at Innovation Ventures to help along the way (NetID required to view video).
Innovation Ventures Road to Commercialization Symposium: Effective Partnerships with Industry
This webinar focuses on how industry partners evaluate research collaborations and technology licensing opportunities: the type of data they look for, how to speak their language and what questions to expect.
Innovation Ventures Road to Commercialization Symposium Series: R U Protecting Your Innovative Idea
In this webinar, hear from prolific faculty researchers about how they developed their technologies, engaged with Innovation Ventures, secured commercialization focused funding, and attracted industry interest to advance the commercialization of their innovative ideas.
Research and Innovation News
The Rutgers research and innovation community came together to celebrate its own at the 2023 Patent Celebration, in Trayes Hall at the Douglass Student Center.
Rutgers is part of a new federally funded regional collaboration to drive economic and technological advancements in photonics, a field involving the use of light in areas as diverse as medicine, communications and defense, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced yesterday.
To help people regulate their emotions in healthy ways, a Rutgers researcher pioneered the Storm/Breaker emotion and behavior management app as a standalone smartphone mental health intervention.