Wednesday, June 29, 2022, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy BMS Auditorium, Piscataway
Commercialize Your Innovation
Driving a Culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Rutgers
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.
126
Global Patents Issued
Fiscal Year 2021
88
Active Startups
Fiscal Year 2021
$42.6 Million
in Licensing Revenue
Fiscal Year 2021
154
Invention Disclosures
Fiscal Year 2021
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.
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
Thursday, July 07, 2022, 8:00 a.m.-Friday, July 08, 2022, 4:00 p.m.
In Case You Missed It...
Innovation Ventures Road to Symposium Series: Attract and Maintain Industry Interest
This webinar examined the importance of understanding market needs and ways to engage industry partners and investors to draw and sustain their interest in your technology (NetID required to view video).
USPTO Webinar: Patenting Apps and Software Application
Rutgers Office for Research – Innovation Ventures and New Brunswick Libraries are proud to host a series of free webinars regarding the patent process. This session featured Alford Kindred, who has been with USPTO since 1997. His tenure includes serving as a patent examiner, primary patent examiner, supervisory patent Examiner, Acting Director of the Office of Information Management Service. (NetID required to view video)
USPTO Webinar: How to Conduct a Prior Art Search
Rutgers Office for Research – Innovation Ventures and New Brunswick Libraries are proud to host a series of free webinars regarding the patent process. This session featured Cynthia Sdrewski, who has been a member of the Information Technology Resource Provider since July 2003. She has significant experience in software development and training. (NetID required to view video).
Research and Innovation News
Researchers from the School of Arts & Sciences-Newark (SASN) at Rutgers University have received National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to explore interactions between genetic and lifestyle risk factors for Alzheimer’s Disease among African Americans and the Yoruba people of Nigeria.
A pair of Rutgers engineers have developed a tool aided by artificial intelligence to detect trespassing on railroad crossings and curb fatalities that have been increasing over the past decade.
A pair of Rutgers professors have partnered with a former colleague to form a startup with the goal of developing novel cancer treatments based on the use of antibody drug conjugates.