Advancing Your Research
Cultivate resources and relationships to meet your goals
To enhance early-stage research, OTD established three accelerator programs and facilitates corporate partnerships through industry sponsorship and university-wide strategic research alliances. Accelerator support and scientific collaborations with industry partners can promote intellectual exchange, advance work on a project toward commercialization opportunities, and attract financial support for your lab.
Accelerators
OTD manages three accelerator programs that combine translational funding, investor and industry connections, and business development expertise to bridge the development gap for research to reach real-world solutions with a global impact.
- The Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator advances innovations in the life sciences.
- The Harvard Grid Accelerator advances innovations in the engineering and physical sciences as part of the Harvard Grid and in partnership with the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Sciences.
- The Climate and Sustainability Translational Fund advances innovations in climate and sustainability in partnership with the Salata Institute. Accelerator funding of faculty research frequently leads to industry sponsorship, licensing, or the launch of a startup.
Strategic Corporate Partnerships
OTD facilitates industry sponsorship of individual research projects and multi-year, university-wide strategic research alliances to advance research. Academic-industry partnerships bring real-world problems directly into the lab to generate the knowledge, datasets, capabilities, and access required to foster tangible solutions. Strategic corporate alliances accelerate research in various disciplines across the university, addressing critical unmet needs in multiple research areas. These relationships can help you develop your ideas and early-stage technologies toward future licensing while enriching your work with new perspectives.
Harvard’s three pioneering accelerators have become model programs for other universities worldwide.
OTD’s well-crafted corporate partnerships have enabled researchers in my lab to follow their curiosity, connect with new collaborators, and pursue more ambitious studies than we could have done alone.
Prof. Daniel Kahne
FAS Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Working with OTD
With our knowledge of the market, business contacts, and ability to cultivate and sustain productive relationships with industry, we can help you to form strong collaborations even when commercialization is far in the future.
We provide you with ongoing professional support throughout the process of developing proposals and identifying and engaging the appropriate corporate partner. Above all, our thoughtful agreements protect academic freedom and values.
Harvard was ranked 3rd among Thomson Reuters’ 100 “Most Innovative Universities” worldwide in 2019.
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