Our Purpose
The University of Arizona is a place of learning, invention and discovery. At Tech Launch Arizona, we collaborate with creators and the local community to help bring those discoveries to the world through commercial pathways. Our primary focus is ensuring that innovations originating with U of A faculty, researchers, staff and students find meaningful applications that benefit the public.
How does University of Arizona Commercialization Work?
Whether you are a principal investigator delving into new areas of science and discovery, a researcher with an idea for how your work can make people's lives better, a software developer working on a new application that could make someone's job easier, or a student with an idea you want to take forward, TLA is there to help.
Whatever your field of expertise, research or creative innovation, we're here to help you maximize the impact of your work. And we've put everything you need to know to get started into 3 minutes and 56 seconds.
Working with Tech Launch Arizona
We turn discoveries into real-world solutions. How does the process actually work? We work with U of A inventors, providing people, services and resources, to protect university intellectual property and license those inventions to both established companies and new startups.
Making Strategic Connections
TLA facilitates a Commercialization Network through which researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, and established businesses come together with diverse perspectives and help assess and advance U of A inventions.
Facilitating Startup Success
Our nationally-funded I-Corps program uses experiential education to help inventors and startup teams understand their customers and develop and entrepreneurial skills and insight mindset.
Areas of Focus
Intellectual Property
TLA provides a full range of IP services to U of A faculty, researchers and staff. We work with these inventors to protect various types of IP, enabling all stakeholders – the inventors as well as the university – to benefit from these discoveries.
Licensing
We market U of A inventions, find great companies to take them forward, and work collaboratively with all parties to develop fair licensing strategies. We are driven by a commitment to fairness and the desire to see every invention realize its maximum potential to contribute to a better world.
Startups
We offer a full range of services, people and resources to help U of A inventors who wish to launch a startup to commercialize inventions. With a full team of experienced mentors and entrepreneurs, we support academic entrepreneurs through all the phases leading to the launch of a startup.
Get to Know Us Better
One of the best ways to learn about who we are and what we do is by looking at our previous work and achievements. Check out our most recent annual report in the archive.