Stimulating invention

The Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships works with the University community to turn research discoveries into meaningful inventions. UD's Technology Transfer Center helps protect intellectual property as well as aiding with licensing, commercialization and growth of new enterprises.

Celebrating the role and dynamic of the inventor in research

Enabling innovation

The Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships has established the "Entrepreneurial Ecosystem," which serves as a support system for students, faculty and researchers--encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration to grown new business ideas.

Establishing the "Entrepreneurial Ecosystem"

Forging partnerships

As part of its broader mission, the Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships is helping to develop partnerships within the state, region and across the globe that produce economic and community benefits.

Deploying our Knowledge-Based Assets for Impact

Creating Jobs

Through empowering small business owners and assisting UD researchers in creating their own start-up companies, the Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships is helping put people to work in Delaware.

Developing technology and community-based business

Hands-down winner

Military glove maker assisted by resources at UD

Contracting business

Procurement Technical Assistance Center helps companies navigate world of government contracts - 142 awards totaling almost $100 million.

President Patrick Harker lauds the work of inventors and innovators

Feb. 7, UD's latest crop of inventors was honored at a reception at the Roselle Center for the Arts.

DogfishHead named to SBA 100

Off-centered ales for off-centered people. The de facto mission statement of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery says it all...

UD to partner with NRG Energy

Find out how eV2g, a company commercializing new technology will enable electric vehicle owners to sell electric storage services from the batteries of parked electric vehicles to help stabilize the electricity grid.

$19.5 million grant awarded

A UD-led team has been awarded a $19.5 million grant to establish orthopedic rehabilitation care that optimizes the ability of soldiers with musculoskeletal injuries to function in everyday life.

Spotlight: Marketing Intellectual Property

NRG Energy, Inc. is partnering with the University of Delaware to take electric vehicles to the next level with eV2g. Read More

"Based on national economic development data, each high-tech professional job supports at least three additional jobs in the local economy"
-- David Weir, Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships
"There's a big picture forming around innovation and entrepreneurship, and the role of universities in supporting and rewarding risk-taking and risk-takers."
--UD President Patrick Harker
"With our strong connections to industry and government, we encourage our students to think about how their work might solve an industrial problem or address a military need."
--Jack Gillespie, Center for Composite Materials
"I look forward to continued growth in UD creativity in service to our society as well as UD entrepreneurship."
--Norman Wagner, Department of Chemical Engineering
"It's great to see groundbreaking energy related research coming to the University of Delaware."
--Michael J. Chajes, dean of the College of Engineering
"I consider this our mission: to actively build our creative capital, to gather together our intellectual assets and deploy them to build a vibrant, sustainable economy fueled by discovery, invention and innovation."
--UD President Patrick Harker
"ETI's success supports the strategy of creating high-quality jobs in the state through the establishment of high-tech start-ups"
-- David Weir, Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships