Featured programs
Academic Research Commercialization (ARC)
The ARC Program is a student-inspired initiative created in 2021 out of the Office of the Vice President for Research and UVM Innovations to provide UVM students, regardless of college or major, with innovative training and experiential learning opportunities to become the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders. It also provides faculty innovators with product and business development support to further the commercialization of discoveries created in their research endeavors.
NSF I-Corps
The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) program is an immersive, entrepreneurial training program that facilitates the transformation of invention into impact. This immersive, seven-week experiential training program prepares scientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the university laboratory — accelerating the economic and societal benefits of NSF-funded and other basic research projects that are ready to move toward commercialization.
SPARK-VT
As the breadth and magnitude of our research grows, we seek to provide opportunities for our faculty to successfully bring innovations to market and launch new companies. We believe this is critical to our success as a research university and in fulfilling our mission as a land grant university.
To accelerate this translation of new knowledge into tangible benefits to society, we are pleased to offer the SPARK-VT program. SPARK-VT brings the experience and insight of a panel of distinguished industry experts and successful entrepreneurs to the critical evaluation of promising, innovative applications of new knowledge.