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Technology Commercialization Resources

• The Office of Technology Management on the Chicago and Urbana campuses identify, evaluate, protect, market, and license the University’s intellectual property.
  
  
• llinoisVENTURES, LLC partners with leading researchers and experienced entrepreneurs to build successful companies based on proprietary and patented technologies.
  
  
• University-associated research parks and incubators at UIC and UIUC attract established high-technology companies to the campus communities, support continued development of companies commercializing University-based technologies, and encourage R&D collaboration between industry and the University.
  Chicago Technology Park and Research Center
  University of Illinois Research Park, LLC

• Entreprenurial Education Programs: a broad range of programs designed to create opportunitiesfor students to apply their knowledge and skills to the real-world problems associated with technology commercialization.