dan-reed@uiowa.edu

Student, Faculty & Staff

Entrepreneurship

Workforce Training &

Development

Business &Technical

Partnerships

StudentInternship & Placement

TechnologyLicensing, Startups &

Research Park

Basic & AppliedResearch

& Development

Established in 1989 as a blended 550+ acre campus

Park companies and economic impact

Two startup incubators

UI Research ParkBioVentures Center

Technology Innovation Center

~80% UI startups are biomedical• Medical device companies require capital

• FDA PMA device approval • Device prototypes require

• 3-D design, prototype design• fabrication and testing

• Most startups lack financing to outsource

Advanced design and prototyping hub• $1.4M IEDA funding for protostudios• Prototyping, fabrication, 3-D printing• CNC machines, electronics, design tools• Design training and skills uplift

State, regional, & university partnership

Doing for startups and SMEs what cloud computing did for IT startups

Small, high-resolution prototypesWorkforce training and skills uplift

Prototyping, not manufacturing

ISU, UNI and Kirkwood partnerships

Filling a unique niche in the state • Reduce IP and talent flight• Build local companies and ecosystem

Student engagement• Hands on training• SME support and internships

Protects IP through patents & copyrightsPrepares discoveries for licensingSecures industry research fundingFosters tech transfer & entrepreneurshipMarkets technology to industry partners GAP Fund

Helps launch UI-based startupsProvides startup business adviceConnects startups to funding optionsBuilds the startup ecosystemIowa/CONNECT taps alumni mentors

• FY16: 151 invention disclosures, 142 patents filed, $3.6M industrial research funding• Rising percentage of technologies licensed/optioned to Iowa companies• UIRF served 470 unique inventors in FY16 (through invention disclosures and agreements)• FY16 GAP funding totaling $663K led to $916K of follow-on funding• UI Faculty/Staff startups brought in over $1.9M in funding for FY16

National Science Foundation (NSF) I-CORPS Sites grant• Three-year, $300,000 grant awarded spring 2015 to train and support 90 faculty entrepreneurs• 35 faculty with commercialization projects were trained to date

Venture School statewide community training program based on NSF program• Multiple cohorts hosted statewide, involving 101 startups and 308 entrepreneurs• Hosted in partnership with community colleges and local chambers, as well as UNI• Locations: Council Bluffs, Sioux City, Des Moines, Quad Cities, Cedar Falls, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City

UI Ventures • 42 startups actively supported, 14 of which incorporated in FY16• Viewpoint Molecular Targeting named among “Best University Startups 2016”• UI Ventures-affiliated companies received $1.2M in SBIR/STTR grants in FY16• Launched an investor- and alumni-based networking group, Iowa/CONNECT

• Spark Therapeutics raised $128M in its initial public offering of stock as it works to develop genetic treatments for blinding eye diseases

• VIDA Diagnostics, developing airway mapping software to guide bronchoscopy biopsy, recently received $5.1M in funding

• Viewpoint Molecular Targeting received $771,556 in FY16 in from the NIH’s program for the production of the company’s

image-guided radiopharmaceutical treatment of metastatic melanoma.

• MediRevv, which specializes in management of the health care revenue cycle, is among 24 Iowa companies that made the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing U.S. companies.

• SwineTech has been awarded over $150,000 in pitch competitions from around the country, including first place at the International Business Model Competition. SwineTech is an Ag-Tech company that is reducing the pre-wean mortality and health on sow farms.

• HealthTech Solutions has received over $400,000 in private investment and $25,000 from the Iowa Proof of Commercial Relevance Program for ORGANIZER, their software solution to manage the organ transplant process.

Dalton Shaull/Eric PahlCo-FoundersHealthTech Solutionswww.organizerhope.com

UI Pharmaceuticals (UIP) is the largest university-affiliated, FDA-registered pharmaceutical facility in the United States

UI Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing (CBB) is a GMP fermentation & protein purification facility (large molecules)

SE Iowa STEM Hub and Kirkwood at University of Iowa

National Advanced Driving Simulator and Creative Corridor