Overview

The Polsky Center collaborates with an extensive network of commercial and venture contacts, building relationships and establishing connections that are essential to successfully advancing innovation within the University and the region.

Our researchers generate new knowledge and solutions to significant societal challenges. Their long history of breakthroughs includes discovering the link between cancer and genetics, establishing revolutionary theories of economics, and developing tools to produce reliably excellent urban schooling. Most recently, their discoveries and technologies are developing life-saving cancer therapeutics, improving disease diagnostics, increasing quality of education and training, creating green tech energy solutions, and more.

The Polsky Center works closely with researchers and with companies and business leaders to advance that research, helping to get it out into the market for the benefit of society. The Polsky Center develops partnerships and licenses with companies and business leaders to create mutually beneficial relationships dedicated to advancing development of therapeutics and technologies with potential.

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The University of Chicago and AbbVie, a global biopharmaceutical company, have entered into a five-year collaboration agreement designed to improve the pace of discovery and advance medical research in oncology at both organizations...

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Partnerships

Working with the Polsky Center

The Polsky Center works closely with members industry partners in order to build new partnerships and expand existing strategic external partnerships to advance the research enterprise at the University of Chicago. Our teams have experience with establishing and managing long-term, cross-functional, win-win collaborations with industry partners. We also have committed space and resources for corporate partner co-location enabling proximity and access to collaborators, multidisciplinary talent, and innovation ecosystem.

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Success Stories

The Polsky Center is proud to have supported many successful startups incuding Braintree, Grubhub and Foxtrot. This is more placeholder text about successful startups Polsky helped grow and develop.

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Access resources that can help you launch or advance your venture, including specialized mentorship and proof-of-concept funding.

For more information on how to partner with the University of Chicago, contact our Industry Relations team.

Polsky Center Launches New Strategic Program for Innovation at the National Labs to Support Entrepreneurial Thinking

Led by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the Strategic Program for Innovation at the National Labs (SPIN) kicked off on March 23rd with 17 scientists and staff from…

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