With a long history of transforming scientific breakthroughs into useful new products, UF actively promotes the transfer of the university鈥檚 intellectual property to the marketplace.
UF Innovate comprises Tech Licensing, Ventures, Pathways, and an Accelerate program. Together, those organizations move research discoveries from the laboratory to the market. UF Innovate connects innovators with entrepreneurs, investors and industry, incubates startups and growth companies, and fosters a resilient economy 鈥� all in an effort to make the world a better place.
Based in Alachua鈥檚 Progress Corporate Park, the Sid Martin Biotechnology Incubator supports a community of companies, entrepreneurs and advisors to foster the growth of therapeutic, diagnostic, device, energy, ag-bio and other startups.
Part of the Warrington College of Business Administration, the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation offers a certificate program in new venture creation that is open to any graduate student at UF. In addition, the center鈥檚 GatorNest program develops solutions for problems facing early-stage ventures.
The center stimulates promising research and facilitate commercialization of technologies that will provide treatments and cures for human diseases. Located in Alachua's Progress Corporate Park, the centers activities include education, translational research, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Florida Biologix庐, the center's biopharmaceutical manufacturing and testing services facility, provides a broad range of drug development services.