IUPUI is Indiana's premier urban research university. The campus enrolls more than 30,000 students in 21 schools and academic units.
Innovation to Enterprise Central
Research Commercialization Support
Our goal is to create and encourage the invention culture on campus, and serve as a ready source of support and information for faculty, staff, and students engaged in research with potential for commercial development. It is important to know how to prepare and move concepts and technologies along the "invention pipeline", and when to engage the expertise at the Indiana University Research & Technology Corporation (IURTC).
We offer programs and services to:
- Leverage campus enthusiasm for research, innovation, and invention
- Connect researchers to each other, centers and labs on campus, and external collaborators
- Assist researchers in navigating the challenges and opportunities they experience when refining discoveries to a point where they can be presented to the IURTC
Groups can schedule a workshop or presentation on a variety of related subjects—intellectual property, entrepreneurship, and commercialization. Individual faculty can schedule a direct consultation related to their research program.
Contact: Karen White, CLP, Research Development & Commercialization Facilitator
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
Phone: 317-274-1083
Email: kfwhite@iupui.edu
Programs
Whether you are an IUPUI student, faculty member, alumni, or a member of the entrepreneurial community, there are numerous opportunities to get involved in the Innovation to Enterprise Central activities and programs.
Faculty
IUPUI researchers/scholars with research projects in various stages of enterprise development are invited to submit proposals for Innovation to Enterprise Central (ITEC) projects. Under supervision of the ITEC facilitation team, faculty clients, and faculty and/or community mentors, students on the project team will be responsible for research, planning, and development of a new process, application, and/or prototype.
The Funding Opportunities for Research Commercialization and Economic Success (FORCES) grant is designed to support IUPUI researchers in the successful transformation of their research findings into commercially viable outcomes. Deadlines: September 15 and March 15
Students
The Ideas Solving Social and Economic Challenges (ISSEC) is a competition to reward IUPUI students for their innovative ideas to solve social and economic challenges facing the nation and the world. Students (undergraduate or graduate) with an original idea showing commercial promise or with potential for significant social impact are encouraged to participate.
Innovation to Enterprise Central (ITEC) Commercialization Teams facilitates the creation and support of collaborative multidisciplinary research commercialization teams, consisting of students from multiple academic disciplines, faculty and other participants. The primary purpose of these teams is to provide students a unique opportunity to work with mentors on learning about research innovations and exploring opportunities for their transformation into commercial enterprises.
Events
IUPUI Ideas Solving Social and Economic Challenges—ISSEC Student Pitch Competition
IUPUI Campus Center Theater, 3:00 pm to 5:30pm, Tuesday, February 26, 2013.
For more information, go to http://www.crl.iupui.edu/issec/. Questions can be directed to Karen White at kfwhite@iupui.edu or (317) 274-1083.
The ISSEC competition is free, and open to the public—everyone is invited to attend! Register here.
For more information or if you have questions please contact us:
Karen White, CLP
Research Development & Commercialization Facilitator
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
IUPUI
Phone: 317-274-1083
kfwhite@iupui.edu
Bradley W Fravel, PhD, MBA
Business Development Manager & Faculty Corporate Liaison
IURTC
(317) 278-1916 or (317) 966-4926
bfravel@iupui.edu
