Cleveland State University provides innovation pathways for a broad audience, whether you are a student or faculty interested in leveraging our facilities to bring your product to life, or from industry and trying to collaborate on an agreement with the university. Select the pathway below that fits your need for more information.
Collaborate with students, faculty, and industry on real-world problems and challenges at Cleveland State University. See how to generate ideas at the Weston Ideation Lab, build them at the Dan T. Moore Makerspace, patent, fund, and commercialize through the Technology Transfer Office, and then create a business plan and strategy.
Industry Express Collaboration
Industry Express agreements provide a simple framework to remove financial uncertainty that can be associated with access to university-developed intellectual property rights, including a non-exclusive royalty free license, a paid up exclusive license, and ownership being assigned to the sponsor.