Helping connect you with the experts and resources you need to bring your innovation to the world.
Are you an undergraduate or graduate student employee working on innovative research in a PI’s lab? Do you have a job helping to develop software or an app as part of your employment as a student?
In these cases, when the invention is developed during the course of your University of Arizona employment and we determine that the invention will be part of the university’s IP portfolio, TLA will assess and protect the research. Then we work with you to develop the best commercial pathway for that invention – either through licensing it to an existing company or to a startup – to get it out into the world where it can make a difference.
Independent Student Inventors
Students who are not employed by the university, as well as those who are U of A employees but whose ideas for inventions are not related to their job duties, are considered Independent Student inventors.
U of A has no claim to the student's ideas or inventions, and while TLA doesn't facilitate the commercialization of these inventions, there are campus resources that can help with information and next steps.
"TLA is like a moving train. You have to catch it and then it takes you places you couldn't have seen or imagined." - Vindoh Subramanian, founder of Hipokratiz, LLC
Have you talked with your PI?
If your university-supported research sparks an idea for an invention, your first step is to talk to the faculty member most closely associated with your work. If you have questions, give us a call, we're happy to help.