Faculty & Researchers
Faculty-centered service
Innovation Partnerships’ team of professionals brings business, scientific, and legal expertise to amplify the impact of U-M research. We center our efforts around serving our primary customers – you, our faculty. Let us help to give your research its best chance to change the world.
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Submit Your Innovation
Submitting your innovation or research discovery is the first step that leads to commercialization and licensing. We are ready to evaluate your innovation and provide guidance that maximizes your potential for success.
We welcome…
- novel inventions,
- software/digital works,
- creative works/copyright
- research tools/biomaterials,
and any innovation that you believe will create transformative change.
Submit Your Innovation
Commercialization Basics
We work with you to bring breakthrough discoveries to the widest possible audience through commercialization.
Featured Resources
Digital Discovery
The Digital Discovery ProcessSM is a unique service built to help faculty and staff move early stage software based ideas from unstructured brainstorms, fragments and broad based inspiration into well formed and developed concepts. This powerful service helps move your ideas from a rough sketch to an articulate vision that can be clearly presented, supported and actioned.Material Transfer Agreement – Incoming
Incoming Material Transfer Agreements (MTA) govern the transfer of material from outside entities to U-M. If you are an outside entity interested in sending material to a researcher at U-M, please contact MichiganMTA@umich.edu and provide information about the materials and the recipient.Material Transfer Agreement – Outgoing
Outgoing Material Transfer Agreements (MTA) govern the transfer of material from U-M to another organization. If you are a U-M researcher interested in sending materials to an outside country, please contact MichiganMTA@umich.eduAspiring to Impact
Aspiring to Impact is a networking group created by Innovation Partnerships to bring together faculty and researchers interested in closing the gap in women’s leadership in entrepreneurial communities.Software and Content Thought Leadership
The Software and Content Thought Leadership Webinar Series covers topics that are relevant to protection, dissemination (ex. open-source), commercialization, and industry collaborations for software and content-based research. Our webinar speakers have an array of expertise, including intellectual property (IP) law, commercial open source software and regulatory requirements for medical devices.500+
New Inventions Yearly
150+
Patents Issued Annually
250+
License / Option Agreements Yearly