Licensing for University Innovators

A license is a long-term partnership that aligns the interests of the University of Colorado and a business partner by commercializing innovation developed at the university. Venture Partners at CU Boulder initiates commercialization by licensing university intellectual property (IP) to startups and industry partners. At Venture Partners, we have established leading practices for startup- and business-friendly licensing.

If you are a researcher, inventor or creator at CU Boulder, CU Denver (except CU Denver biosciences investigators, who should work with ) or UCCS and are interested in licensing your IP to an industry partner, please contact our licensing team or reach out to your assigned licensing manager.

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Illustration of a mountain as a metaphor where researchers can climb one of two paths with their discovery of either starting a company or licensing their protected intellectual property

But what is "commercialization?"

The path to commercialization—also known as "research translation" or "tech transfer"—can be challenging, and Venture Partners is here to help by uniting industry partners, entrepreneurs and investors to help researchers, inventors and creators at the University of Colorado bring their groundbreaking discoveries into the marketplace.

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IP and Licensing Team

For general inquiries about licensing your IP, please email vpcontact@colorado.edu.