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Brandy Salmon, Dean
Together, our team ensures breakthroughs break through.
LINK
Center for Advancing Partnerships
Serves as a gateway to the university to support holistic, strategic industry partnerships. We deliver market-driven sensibility and expertise.
LICENSE
Center for Technology Commercialization
Streamlines the path to market through value added services and insight from IP capture, protection and transition strategies to business-friendly negotiation and licensing.
LAUNCH
Center for New Ventures
Catalyzes start-up formation by working with faculty and graduate students to shape ideas and discoveries and identify key resources for start-up opportunities.
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Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties
Serves the Hokie community to protect inventions and ensure intellectual property developed at Virginia Tech is transitioned to market where it can deliver societal benefit.
THE LATEST
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Robin McCarley elected fellow of the National Academy of Inventors , article Date: Dec 15, 2023 -
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Eric Burger elected fellow of National Academy of Inventors , article Date: Dec 15, 2023 -
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About LINK + LICENSE + LAUNCH
Our team offers a full continuum of services to the Virginia Tech community and industry to help partnerships grow and flourish and ensure the discoveries made at the university deliver economic and human impact. We enable platforms and projects large and small. From delivering on the goals of Virginia Tech’s new Innovation Campus, to be located in Alexandria Virginia, to nurturing Virginia Tech start-ups, we offer a full suite of services under one team. Our three complementary centers help companies increase talent and research capabilities, commercialize ideas and discoveries, and create cycles of growth and opportunity to serve the VT community, commonwealth and beyond.