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Introduction
Columbia University is a private research university established in 1754. Our campus is located in Upper Manhattan, NYC. Columbia has twenty undergraduate and graduate schools, in addition to several Global Centers around the world.
Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship
Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship
Actively supporting the university technology transfer function
Taken from Columbia's Technology Ventures Website, "Columbia Technology Ventures is the technology transfer office for Columbia University and a central location for many of the technology development initiatives, entrepreneurial activities, external industry collaborations, and commercially-oriented multidisciplinary technology innovations across the university. CTV’s core mission is to facilitate the transfer of inventions from academic research labs to the market for the benefit of society on a local, national, and global basis. Each year, CTV manages more than 350 invention disclosures, 100 license deals, and 20 new IP-backed start-ups, involving over 750 inventors across Columbia's campuses. CTV currently has over 1200 patent assets available for licensing, across research fields such as bio, IT, clean tech, devices, big data, nanotechnology, materials science, and more."
More information about Columbia Technology Ventures can be found here.