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 helps identify and develop industry sponsored research opportunities at Drexel.  We also collaborate with ORI colleagues in the Office of Sponsored Programs around IP provisions in the execution of these types of agreements. Please contact applied_innovation@drexel.edu if you are in early exploration or discussions with potential industry sponsors.

Explore translational research and industry collaboration opportunities

• Consider translational research funding opportunities such as the Drexel-Coulter Translational Research program if your project aims to develop health care solutions that address unmet or underserved clinical needs and lead to improvements in patient health care.
• 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 if we can help answer any questions about this policy and what it means for you as an inventor.  Also see our FAQs.

Startups?

• Our team can walk you through several resources for startups, including NSF I-Corps at Drexel and other new venture-related resources found here.