University Venture Development Fund

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Join the UO’s research and development efforts

The UVDF supports entrepreneurship programs, provides opportunities to apply research to commercial activities, and funds efforts to transform novel concepts into products and services. This is how new ideas on campus become new businesses for the state.

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Read this year's UVDF Impact Report

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From this year's UVDF Impact Report

Women’s Innovation Network (WIN)

WIN, a UO network of faculty members, students, and women executives and business leaders helps women entrepreneurs. Last year, the inaugural cohort of 20 UO faculty members, graduate students, and Lane County entrepreneurs completed the nine-month program. The second group of 23 women started this October, and this year the UVDF is helping fund the program.

Head Start for Startups

A champion for entrepreneurship since he was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, new director of the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship Jeff Sorensen is bringing bold ideas for expanding scope and impact.

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New Scientific Search Tool

Evergreen Bioworks, a UO spinoff launching soon with help from the UVDF, has developed a way to exponentially increase the pace of research and development in the emerging field of therapeutic peptides, or “biologics."

A message from Anshuman Razdan, Vice President for Research and Innovation

The University Venture Development Fund (UVDF) helps the UO’s top innovators move their discoveries from campus to commercial applications. These early stages of entrepreneurship are crucial—so tenuous that even our most brilliant, dedicated scholars require additional resources to bridge the gap from the lab to the marketplace.