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= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span><br/> =
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Coming in at #21 in total funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) among all universities, UAB has a [http://www.report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=DH,27,47,4,52,64,10000,MS,20,16,6,13,10,49,53,86,OTHDH&fy=2015&state=&ic=&fm=&orgid=&distr=&rfa=&om=n&pid= substantial ] amount of resources (over $160 220 million in grants from the NIH alone) for faculty to pursue innovation in a research context. Faculty are encouraged to pursue ideas and are frequently recognized for their innovative work both on-campus, by campus-wide publications such as [https://www.uab.edu/uabmagazine/ UAB Magazine ] and [http://hatteras.dpo.uab.edu/cgi-bin/greenmail.cgi GreenMail], and off, by news features at the local, regional, and national levels.</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">With Birmingham’s entrepreneurial landscape exploding in the last few years, UAB has recently begun developing partnerships with leaders in the entrepreneurial community, as evidenced by the collaboration between the Innovation Depot (a local startup incubator) and the Collat School of Business to form the iLab, a student business incubator. These partnerships provide opportunities for both students and faculty to gain the tools needed to potentially launch their products into the market.</span>