Licensing Process
Industry and investors are invited to peruse our technologies and startups, explore our pipelines or connect directly with INVO for other types of specific requests related to our IP portfolio.
Explore Northwestern's Newest Discoveries
Use the INVO site to find Northwestern's cutting edge technologies and most exciting startups.
INVO receives approximately 200 invention disclosures per year. The Northwestern technologies that are available for licensing can be searched on our online platform, Technology Publisher. To view some of these technologies according to commercialization phase refer to our Pipelines.
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When you partner with us, you tap into a proven engine of innovation:
- 1,400+ industry partnerships
- 3,200 patents filed
- 60% issuance success rate
- 1,300 groundbreaking inventions evaluated
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The Northwestern portfolio cover a variety of markets that range from therapeutics and healthcare devices to engineering, energy and industrial processes. In the last year alone, Northwestern startups raised more than $110M from the private sector and signed more than $1.5B in co-development agreements.