Partnerships

An unparalleled industry-ready talent pipeline, Virginia Tech is forging new partnerships and strengthening existing partnerships to bring world-class research to market, solving challenges in a rapidly changing world, and commercializing discoveries for economic, social and global good.

Virginia Tech researchers partner with federal research agencies and laboratories and leading corporations to advance scientific frontiers and solve the world's most complex problems.

They are scientists, engineers, inventors, virologists, cyberwarriors, environmental scientists, and quantum physicists whose research collaborations extend traditional boundaries, offering partners access to a wide range of research.

From award to discovery to market, federal, private, and industry partnerships are critical to Virginia Tech’s research enterprise.

By the Numbers

Expanding impact of Virginia Tech’s research through increasing core metrics of technology transfer and commercialization. *Data below reflects the success of the 2023 fiscal year.

$80 million-plus in corporate and foundation philanthropy

Dedicated professionals making connections

From discovery to market, the Virginia Tech Innovation and Partnership team connects companies and foundations with opportunities. Dedicated to supporting all aspects of alumni, foundation, and corporate partnerships from research collaborations and corporate giving to technology commercialization and start-ups.

Comprising three centers, LINK + LICENSE + LAUNCH, the Innovation and Partnership team is focused on turning what if into what’s next.

Learn more about the office

LINK

Center for Advancing Partnerships

Serves as a gateway to the university to support holistic, strategic industry partnerships. We deliver market-driven sensibility and expertise.

LICENSE

Center for Technology Commercialization

Streamlines the path to market through value added services and insight from IP capture, protection and transition strategies to business-friendly negotiation and licensing.

LAUNCH

Center for New Ventures

Catalyzes start-up formation by working with faculty and graduates students to shape ideas and discoveries and identify key resources for start-up opportunities.

VTIP

Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties

Serves the Hokie community to protect inventions and ensure intellectual property developed at Virginia Tech is transitioned to market where it can deliver societal benefit.

Strengthening the relevance and impact of Virginia Tech research and innovation to federal partners and sponsors

The Office of Strategic Research Alliances provides advice to university researchers on agency priorities and conducts collaborative strategic program planning aligned with agency needs. Serving as a bridge between federal partners and researchers, the office advances collaboration, tracks research trends, and cooperatively maps Virginia Tech expertise to agency needs and priorities.

Connecting researchers through expertise and strategic planning, the Office of Strategic Research Alliances works to:

Establish, strengthen, and maintain relationships between Virginia Tech and federal research sponsors

Track, analyze, and disseminate research priorities of federal agencies, while elevating Virginia Tech’s participation in national research agenda-setting activities

Convene the research community to shape innovative solutions to national priorities and build collaborative teams to advance those solutions