Office of Technology Commercialization At UConn

Log On | OTC News | Contact Us | Subscribe

Tech-Knowledge Portal (TKP)

TKP helps companies seeking assistance with technology and entrepreneurs developing new-tech products and firms. » Learn More

Center for Science and Technology (CSTC)

CSTC identifies, evaluates, protects, markets and licenses UCHC's life and physical sciences inventions. » Learn More

UConn Research &
Development (R&D)

UConn R&D initiates new business start-ups based on innovative technologies developed by the faculty and staff.
» Learn More

Technology Incubation Program (TIP)

TIP helps new companies locate on campus and provides access to resources that could be otherwise unattainable.
» Learn More

SUBSCRIBE

The Latest News, Trends and Happenings

May 08

A Big Boost for Budding Entrepreneurs

No Comments

Jolina Li won’t need to look for a job when she graduates this year with her bachelor’s degree in finance. The 23-year-old entrepreneur and UConn senior has already created one for herself as the founder of YumZing.com, an online startup business. And now, she’s among several students receiving a major boost through a new UConn competition to foster exactly that kind of ambition and innovation.

Li’s team and three others were named the inaugural winners of Innovation Quest (IQ), which launched this year at UConn as an expansion of a competition that started almost a decade ago at California Polytechnic State University. Click here to read the full article.

May 08

A 13-Year-Old Enlists M.B.A. Students to Build Her Start-Up

No Comments

May 1, 2012: To silence her stubborn hiccups during the summer of 2010, Mallory Kievman tried swallowing saltwater, making herself gag, eating a spoonful of sugar, sipping pickle juice and drinking a glass of water upside-down. Nearly two years and 100 attempted folk remedies later, the 13-year-old is preparing to lead a team of M.B.A. students from the University of Connecticut in building a company that can bring her invention — Hiccupops, or hiccup-stopping lollipops — to market this summer.

The University of Connecticut’s Innovation Accelerator plans to dispatch a group of graduate business students this summer to help push Hiccupops out into the world. The students will work from late May through August and get paid for their labor by the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, a university hub that hosts the Innovation Accelerator program. The center’s executive director, Christopher Levesque, will be their mentor.

So far, Mallory has presented her product at a state economic summit and at the Xcellr8 Innovation Cell, a networking group. In January, she joined a group of Startup America entrepreneurs ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Click here to read the full article.

Source: The New York Times

May 02

UConn reaches out to business community with new science labs

No Comments

April 26, 2012: University of Connecticut Avery Point officially opened new science labs Thursday aimed at helping startup companies, something the lead organizer called a major step in the school’s economic outreach.

Five new laboratories on the Groton campus will be available for lease by startups accepted into the University’s Technology Incubation Program at a rate of $20 per square foot, per year, with a $2 increase per square foot in each subsequent year. Four are chemistry labs, and the fifth is a biology facility. The largest is a 490-square-foot chemistry room. Click here to read the full article. 
(Source: Norwich Bulletin)

Technologies Available For License

Click here to see technologies that are available for license today!

Evaluation of Intellectual Property

Click here to see a brief description of the UConn process for evaluation of Intellectual Property.

Inventor's Guide - designed for faculty, a comprehensive explanation of UConn's patenting, licensing, and commercialization processes.

UConn Research Areas of Strength


Case Studies

Two researchers create a new dental composite named FibreKor with the strength characteristics of a stealth bomber’s surface » Learn More


Scientists at the UConn Health Center are using polymers to produce a new generation of orthodontic appliances. » Learn More


UConn fuels corn company growth. School was dream partner for Massachusetts bioengineers.
» Learn More

 

Testimonials

Click here to read the success stories from partners.