Center for Innovation
Turn your ideas into success!
The UAF Center for Innovation is the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥â€™ Innovation Hub.
Through our Innovation Accelerator, we draw from the University of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥â€™s best research to support its development, launch it as a real world solution, and help it scale up.
The Center for Innovation provides an extensive range of programs that provide funding, training, and expertise designed to meet the needs of our students, faculty, and staff. Explore opportunities for support by subscribing to our newsletter.
Funding Allocated
92 projects since 2018
People Supported
Individuals
Students Trained
Learners
Companies Supported
Scalable Businesses
The UAF Center for Innovation has a track specifically focused on ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ mariculture.
Learn more on ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ maricultureFeatured news
Apr 20
UAF's College of Business and Security Management held the Arctic Innovation Competition finals on April 18th at the 8 Star Events Center in Fairbanks. CBSM's Stacey Currie reports on the event and highlighted the Overall Winner and also Student Kicker Prize winner. Drini and Vjosa Pellumbi won for their residential boiler economizer designed to improve heating efficiency in rural ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥.
Apr 03
Five ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥-based companies are participating in a statewide startup accelerator program, gBETA ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ program through national venture capital firm gener8tor. They are: beadedcloud (Anchorage), Bind (Wasilla), MyEyesAI (Anchorage), SuprSketch (Anchorage), and Tundra Electronics (Kenai).
Mar 23
Our colleagues at the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization (OIPC) partnered with us as part of the inaugural Arctic Velocity event to present the Innovations, Disclosures, and Entrepreneurial Activities (IDEA) Awards.