Celebrating a Year of Innovative Growth
Northwestern University's inventive activity continued to grow in 2024, with 250 disclosures among our many successes. As INVO strives to strengthen entrepreneurial activity by both students and faculty and build a self-sustained community that will generate innovations to benefit society, we make our past reports and current metrics available so that others might gain a better sense for the inventive activity taking place at Northwestern University.
At its core, the mission of Northwestern University’s Innovation and New Ventures Office (INVO) is straightforward: to catalyze the translation of Northwestern innovations to benefit the public and promote economic growth. But a straightforward mission does not mean simple execution. Achievement and ease, after all, rarely go hand in hand. Read more
Sustainability-minded researchers at Northwestern have a new campus ally in the Trienens-Q Accelerator. A joint effort between Northwestern’s Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy and the Querrey InQbation Lab, the University’s upstart initiative to translate research-driven innovation, the Trienens-Q Accelerator launched in early 2024. Read more