UF Innovate

Public description

About the program

UF Innovate is the University of Florida's integrated commercialization organization serving UF Health researchers and the wider university, made up of four units: Tech Licensing, Ventures, Pathways and Accelerate. Tech Licensing manages intellectual property, negotiates agreements, guides inventors through technology transfer and assesses whether a discovery should be licensed or spun out. Ventures focuses on startup funding and investment, Pathways provides entrepreneurship training and support, and Accelerate operates UF's incubation programs including The Hub. The office explicitly connects researchers with investors and industry and leads them through the commercialization process from disclosure to deal. Outside companies engage UF Innovate as licensees of UF technology, as industry sponsors, and as tenants and mentors within its incubators.

What the program publicly emphasizes

Focus areas and features

• •Category: Health system accelerator

Publicly documented people and network

Program leadership and alumni

Notable alumni named in public materials

Receives more than 300 invention disclosures a year, executes more than 100 commercial transactions a year and launches nearly 20 companies each year; ranked No. 1 in innovation impact by the George W. Bush Institute (2020) and No. 2 nationally for technology transfer by Heartland Forward (2022)