Partnerships
An unparalleled industry-ready talent pipeline, Virginia Tech is forging new partnerships and strengthening existing partnerships to bring world-class research to market, solving challenges in a rapidly changing world, and commercializing discoveries for economic, social and global good.
Virginia Tech researchers partner with federal research agencies and laboratories and leading corporations to advance scientific frontiers and solve the world's most complex problems.
They are scientists, engineers, inventors, virologists, cyberwarriors, environmental scientists, and quantum physicists whose research collaborations extend traditional boundaries, offering partners access to a wide range of research.
From award to discovery to market, federal, private, and industry partnerships are critical to Virginia Tech’s research enterprise.
By the Numbers
Expanding impact of Virginia Tech’s research through increasing core metrics of technology transfer and commercialization. *Data below reflects the success of the 2023 fiscal year.
Dedicated professionals making connections
From discovery to market, the Virginia Tech Innovation and Partnership team connects companies and foundations with opportunities. Dedicated to supporting all aspects of alumni, foundation, and corporate partnerships from research collaborations and corporate giving to technology commercialization and start-ups.
Comprising three centers, LINK + LICENSE + LAUNCH, the Innovation and Partnership team is focused on turning what if into what’s next.
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 graduates students to shape ideas and discoveries and identify key resources for start-up opportunities.
VTIP
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.
Strengthening the relevance and impact of Virginia Tech research and innovation to federal partners and sponsors
The Office of Strategic Research Alliances provides advice to university researchers on agency priorities and conducts collaborative strategic program planning aligned with agency needs. Serving as a bridge between federal partners and researchers, the office advances collaboration, tracks research trends, and cooperatively maps Virginia Tech expertise to agency needs and priorities.
Connecting researchers through expertise and strategic planning, the Office of Strategic Research Alliances works to:
Establish, strengthen, and maintain relationships between Virginia Tech and federal research sponsors
Track, analyze, and disseminate research priorities of federal agencies, while elevating Virginia Tech’s participation in national research agenda-setting activities
Convene the research community to shape innovative solutions to national priorities and build collaborative teams to advance those solutions
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