3-Minute Read: The Strategic Power of Term Sheets in Collaboration Agreements
July 24, 2025--The practice of using term sheets as a preliminary step is an underutilized tool in university-industry collaborations. Term sheets are efficient decision-making tools that work best when parties [...] READ MORE3-Minute Read: Professional Expertise in the AI Era—What It Means for University-Industry Partnerships
July 8, 2025--The rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the landscape of professional expertise. In response, universities and industry partners are revisiting how students are prepared for work [...] READ MOREUL Research Institutes New President and CEO
UL Research Institutes Welcomes James J. Hudgens, Ph.D., as New president and CEO June 25, 25—UL Research Institutes, a global leader in safety science, has named James J. “Jim” Hudgens [...] READ MOREUnlocking Biotech Innovation: Lessons from opnMe and the Power of Open Collaboration
June 19, 2025 —In today’s rapidly evolving biotechnology landscape, the need for effective collaboration between academia and industry has never been greater. The story of opnMe, an open innovation platform [...] READ MORELeveraging 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 […]
READ MOREProfitability 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. […]
READ MORECampus-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 […]
READ MORENAIRR 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 […]
READ MOREHow 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 […]
READ MOREHBCU 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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