Bring your ideas to market
Whether your goal is to license technology, start a new company or expand to global markets, you can rely on the University of Minnesota to make it happen. Work with us to build on a long history of innovation and discovery.
Technology commercialization
The Office for Technology Commercialization oversees all aspects of technology commercialization at the U of M, bridging the gap between the lab and the marketplace and connecting faculty with companies. Each customer has specific business needs. To best respond to those needs, the office is organized by industry groups, including agriculture and horticulture, engineering and physical sciences, life sciences, software and information technology, and startups.
Industry-sponsored research: Minnesota Innovation Partnerships
Research partnerships
The University of Minnesota is home to nearly 300 centers, institutes, and interdisciplinary graduate programs. In many cases, businesses can join a research center as a sponsoring partner and gain access to the research they perform. Learn more by exploring:
Interdisciplinary graduate programs
Research agreements
New discoveries build on previous research and fuel further investigation. Often, this process can only continue by sharing research materials and data with other researchers. The research collaborators typically share these resources and information via legal agreements, comprising what the U of M categorizes as un-funded research agreements (UFRAs).
Learn more about material transfer agreements and UFRAs.
Tech transfer operation commended for turnaround
Reviewers from three of the nation’s top university technology transfer operations have praised the University of Minnesota for dramatic improvements in its approach to bringing researcher discoveries to the marketplace.
Among other findings, their report declares that the U of M “…has an outstanding track record of accomplishments that put it at the highest ranks of university tech transfer offices...”
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