Personalized services to help you maximize the impact of your innovative work.
We provide services and an extensive network of experts to help you develop, protect, and commercialize inventions. Our services are available to faculty, staff, researchers, graduate students and postdocs – anyone who has created an invention in the course of their work as an employee of the University of Arizona. If you have an invention that could help make the world a better place, we're ready to help make it happen.
Our services include:
- Intellectual property research and protection
- Research and marketing to identify markets and potential licensees
- Asset development funding to advance university inventions
- Licensee identification and negotiation
- Startup support for entrepreneurial researchers
When you engage with TLA, you open doors to multiple opportunities:
- Increased funding for your lab, department, and college
- Qualification for industry and federal grants, such as SBIR funds
- Making your research more attractive for future funding
Helpful starting points for inventors:
How does commercialization work?
Learn more about the process, from disclosure to protection to licensing.
Have an invention in mind?
It all starts when you open a conversation with a TLA licensing manager.
What about intellectual property protection?
Learn about patents, copyrights other types of IP.
What funding is available to help advance my invention?
TLA has Asset Development funding available to move early-stage inventions toward readiness for license.
What TLA services can help me launch a startup?
Get expert support to develop and launch your venture.
What is I-Corps and how can it help me?
Experience this four-week NSF program to help you discover your customer and transform your innovation into real-world impact.