Category: OIE Blog

Pitt innovators are ready to show off their ideas at the 3 Rivers Venture Fair. A university technology showcase will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Tuesday, …

On February 13, Innovation Institute entrepreneur in residence Dan Broderick will be hosting a webinar to discuss funding sources and strategies for university startups.

Some exciting up and coming innovations from Pitt innovators will be highlighted as part of the University Technology Showcase at the 3 Rivers Venture Fair. The showcase will be held …

Innovation Works, the state-funded startup investment organization in Western Pennsylvania, recently announced that its AlphaLab and AlphaLab Gear software and hardware startup accelerators, respectively, will be increasing their investments into …

Pitt Innovators were issued 10 patents in August 2022. Featured patent: 11,406,736 “Vascular Extracellular Matrix Hydrogel” Extracellular matrix (ECM) bioscaffolds are tissue-specific biomaterials with inherent bioactivity and native structural features …

Experienced patent examiners from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) visited the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s brand new Big Idea Center for student innovation recently to give …

The last time we checked in on Pitt startup Lumis Corp. it was still a one-man show and seeking its first customers. As we catch up with the company today …

It took six months of proposal drafting, the collaboration of multiple Pitt organizations – together with eight academic partners — and over 60 small business and other industry partners, followed …