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Innovation Partnership Building

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

manufacturing

Manufacturing

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Data Sciences

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

desalination plant

New Findings May Lead to Sea Change in Desalination Technology

August 16, 2018

Colin Poitras – UConn Communications, UConn Today More than 300 million people around the world rely on desalinated water for part or all of their daily needs — a demand that will only grow with larger populations and improved standards of living. Accessing the oceans for drinking water, however, requires desalination technologies that are complicated and […]

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3D Printing: How Does It Work?

August 1, 2018

Professor Rainer Hebert, Head of UConn’s Additive Manufacturing Innovation Center at IPB, spoke with News 8 about the process of creating 3D print-outs of objects. 3D printing has become a controversial topic after lawmakers have uncovered a new reality: the ability to print guns using these printers at home.

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Congressman Courtney Comes to UConn

May 16, 2018

U.S. Congressman Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) visit at the University of Connecticut’s Storrs campus began at one of UConn’s most specialized R&D facilities, the Innovation Partnership Building (IPB) at the UConn Tech Park.

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