Protect your discoveries & innovation: patents, trademarks, copyrights or trade secrets.

• Disclose your invention to start the process.

Considering working with external collaborators?

• Please contact us as soon as possible!
• We can help protect your innovation and research through Inter-Institutional Agreements (IIA), material transfer agreements (MTA), non-disclosure agreements and appropriate IP provisions in sponsored research and joint research agreements.

COLLABORATING WITH INDUSTRY?

• Drexel Applied Innovation leads the university-wide process for qualifying, developing and executing industry sponsored research at Drexel. Please contact applied_innovation@drexel.edu if you are exploring or in discussions with potential industry sponsors.

Explore translational research and industry collaboration opportunities

• Get the competitive edge for translational research opportunities such as NSF Partnership for Innovation.
• Connect with industry partners matched with your Drexel IP for future letters-of-support (LOS), sponsored research and licensing opportunities.

Drexel IP policy

• Drexel University Intellectual Property Policy addresses the ownership and commercialization of University’s intellectual property assets – contact us and we can walk you through the policy.

Connect with your community ambassador

• Faculty Tech Commercialization Council members are ambassadors for Drexel technology transfer and meet with Drexel Applied Innovation regularly.

Startups?

• Our team can walk you through several resources for startups: NSF I-Corps at Drexel, NSF Small Business Innovation Research advisory, ic@3401 and other funding opportunities to kickstart or accelerate your entrepreneurial endeavor.