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6/11/25

Leveraging Real-World Challenges to Increase Partnership Impact: UVM’s CREATE Center

June 12, 2025—Practical, day-to-day problems that collaborators care about are a natural anchor for strategic university-industry partnerships. Close knowledge of pain points and shared data can bring tight focus to […]

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5/27/25

Profitability as an Engineering Requirement: A New Imperative for University Innovation

May 27, 2025—As government grant program funding grows more uncertain, universities are urgently seeking strategies for broadening their funding base to ensure research can successfully transition from lab to market. […]

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5/12/25

Campus-Wide Engagement: The University of Waterloo’s 5G Partnership of the Future

May 13, 2025—The University of Waterloo and Rogers Communications are demonstrating that strategic partnerships can transform an entire university campus. In late 2019, Waterloo teamed up with Rogers to create […]

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4/24/25

NAIRR and Beyond: Unleashing AI Innovation for all Researchers and Educators

April 29, 2025 – Fundamental science research in universities drives discoveries that lead to new or improved technologies while teaching and training the next generation of researchers. University research is […]

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4/14/25

How Will University Innovation Hubs Shape the Future of Work?

Part 2: Workspaces, Inventive Partnerships, and Measuring Impact Guest blog by Brock Pierce (brock.pierce@unc.edu) Associate Director of Innovation and Economic Impact The University Of North Carolina at Chapel Hill In […]

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4/4/25

HBCU Initiative Support Services: Request for Information (RFI)

Since 2021, UIDP has organized a dedicated Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Initiative with a singular goal of helping these institutions build program and research capacity; more information on […]

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4/2/25

How Will University Innovation Hubs Shape the Future of Work?

Part 1: Talent and Technology Guest blog by Brock Pierce (brock.pierce@unc.edu) Associate Director of Innovation and Economic Impact The University Of North Carolina at Chapel Hill In this two-part blog, […]

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3/18/25

SECURE-ing Research and Data

March 18, 2025 – For more than 150 years, Lincoln College served the underserved communities in rural central Illinois. After surviving both world wars, the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, and […]

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3/4/25

Meeting Your Match: A Case Study in Choosing a Strategic Research Partner

March 4, 2025—Long-term strategic partnerships offer a range of benefits to universities and companies alike, but getting a large-scale partnership off the ground can be daunting. For inspiration, the well-established […]

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2/25/25

What Everyone Should Know About Indirect Costs

Guest blog by Cindy Hope Director, Costing and Financial Compliance Council on Government Relations (COGR) I’ve been explaining the indirect/facilities and administrative costs of universities for 30 years. The topic […]

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