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Inspiring Great Ideas

Welcome to The Innovation Partnership Building at the UConn Tech Park, UConn’s premier center for cutting edge research and industry collaboration and innovation. The IPB provides an ecosystem that inspires great ideas, pushing the envelope for next generation solutions. Cross-disciplinary research teams develop novel approaches to critical real world problems in fields ranging from manufacturing to biomedical devices to cybersecurity.

The IPB strengthens Connecticut’s economic future by connecting leading industries with outstanding research facilities and fosters new, innovative partnerships with entrepreneurs and with companies of all sizes.

The IPB. A hot spot of technological assets and intellectual energy where exceptional innovation, collaboration and partnerships deliver the future.

research and technology expertise

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Energy

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Cybersecurity

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Life Sciences

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Materials

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Manufacturing

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Data Science

a bold step for the state of connecticut

$40M

Invested in state-of-the-art research equipment

113,700

square feet with three floors

8,000

companies performing work relevant to IPB are within two hours' drive to UConn

10

tons of static force can be exerted by state of the art materials testing equipment housed in IPB

514

acres comprise North Campus where IPB is located

80

feet maximum depth of IPB foundation

>$80M

funding from 10 major industries

15

minute to walk to campus

>100

million times magnification capability for world class microscope housed in IPB

News

MoS2 flakes on TiO2 nanotubes imaged at a landing energy of 700 eV.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Fellowships

April 18, 2018

Thermo Fisher Scientific is sponsoring Thermo Fisher Scientific fellowships in relation to the new UCONN – Thermo Fisher Scientific Center for Materials Analysis and Characterization (CMAC).

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Pamir Alpay

DECD Partner Profile

January 15, 2018

A Conversation with Pamir Alpay, Executive Director of the Innovation Partnership Building at the UConn Tech Park.

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A researcher at UConn's Pratt & Whitney Additive Manufacturing Center.

PW AMC Adds New Research Capacity

January 10, 2018

UConn’s Pratt & Whitney Additive Manufacturing Center has added materials testing and simulations systems that researchers say will advance research and development capabilities at the facility.

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