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A team dedicated to supporting all aspects of corporate partnerships from research collaborations, to corporate giving, to technology commercialization and start-ups. We are a one stop shop for industry from discovery to market.

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Together, our team ensures breakthroughs break through. 

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Center for Advancing Partnerships

Serves as a gateway to the university to support holistic, strategic industry partnerships. We deliver market-driven sensibility and expertise.

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Center for Technology Commercialization

Streamlines the path to market through value added services and insight from IP capture, protection and transition strategies to business-friendly negotiation and licensing.

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Center for New Ventures

Catalyzes start-up formation by working with faculty and graduates students to shape ideas and discoveries and identify key resources for start-up opportunities.

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Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties

Serves the Hokie community to protect inventions and ensure intellectual property developed at Virginia Tech is transitioned to market where it can deliver societal benefit. 

Next Frontiers of Space

Advancing talent and research to explore new frontiers.

Virginia Tech launches program for luminary partners advancing space science and engineering
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Meet the Hokie Pioneers launching us into the Next Frontiers of Space in this unique virtual experience  
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FEATURED INITIATIVES

Sofia

Corporate partners for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion




Assembling innovators in the Quantum Collaboratory



Driving impact through
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THE LATEST

Say hello to Virginia Tech inventors who are changing the world

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    John Robertson
    John Robertson

    Translational medical scientist developing engineered technologies to detect and treat dreaded diseases.

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    Jonathan Boreyko
    Jonathan Boreyko

    Mechanical engineer and publisher of 50+ papers applies nature-inspired science and technology combining fluid mechanics, heat transfer, interfacial phenomena, materials science, and renewable energy.

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    Kevin Edgar
    Kevin Edgar

    Professor in biomaterials and bioprocessing who has worked in polysaccharide science approaching on four decades. He is currently exploring new ways to use cellulose and other natural polysaccharides, as renewable, sustainable and biodegradable materials, in the creation of novel drug-delivery systems.

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    Matthew Hull
    Matthew Hull

    Double-Hokie and entrepreneur turned researcher combines a passion for sustainability, converging technologies, and entrepreneurship to study the applications and implications of nanotechnology across multiple domains.

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About LINK + LICENSE + LAUNCH

Our team offers a full continuum of services to the Virginia Tech community and industry to help partnerships grow and flourish and ensure the discoveries made at the university deliver economic and human impact. We enable platforms and projects large and small. From delivering on the goals of Virginia Tech’s new Innovation Campus, to be located in Alexandria Virginia, to nurturing Virginia Tech start-ups, we offer a full suite of services under one team.  Our three complementary centers help companies increase talent and research capabilities, commercialize ideas and discoveries, and create cycles of growth and opportunity to serve the VT community, commonwealth and beyond.