Do you have an idea that would be useful to society?

The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) is dedicated to assisting students, faculty and staff in their research, scholarship or creative works, and helping translate your ideas into business ventures.

If you’re interested in learning how you can be an entrepreneur, the links below can help you at all stages of the process: from refining your idea to building it, from launching your business to scaling it up.

	Ideation	Teachers & Mentors	Partnerships & People
	Academic collaborations Generator* Hills 20 Collision Space Ideathons UVM Innovations (IP strategy)	Community Development and Applied Economics (CDAE) Design Thinking classes Grossman School of Business SPARK-VT Workshops Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Residential Community	UVM Design for America UVM Enactus Club UVM Entrepreneurship Forum UVM Entrepreneurship Club
	Making & Prototyping	Teachers & Mentors	Financing
	Generator* Pitch It, Fab It* UVM FabLab UVM Instrumentation & Model Facility	Clinical Simulation Lab Community Development and Applied Economics (CDAE) Innovators in Residence (Grossman School of Business) Grossman School of Business NIH Entrepreneurship Grant: I-Trep Senior Experience in Engineering Design (SEED) SPARK-VT UVM Alumni UVM Innovations (IP Strategy)	Catamount Innovation Fund SPARK-VT UVM Business Pitch Competition UVMVentures Funds Vermont EPSCoR
	Teachers & Mentors	Partnerships & People	Financing
	I2V Conference UVM Innovations (IP Strategy)	BTV Ignite* Innovation Week* Vermont Center for Emerging Technology (VCET)*	Catamount Innovation Fund I2V Conference SPARK-VT UVM Business Pitch Competition Vermont EPSCoR The Joy and Jerry Meyers Cup
	Partnerships & People		Financing
	Accel-VT* Vermont Center for Emerging Technology (VCET)*		Accel-VT*

NOTE: Resources with an asterisk (*) are partially supported by UVM.