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.
by Peter Webley
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The UAF Center for Innovation has a track specifically focused on ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ mariculture.
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Jun 01
S2S is a ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Center for Innovation program that facilitates workforce development. Funded by the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Regional Collaboration for Technology Innovation and Commercialization, or ARCTIC, program, S2S places UA students into local startups, giving them the hands-on experience and connections they need to build careers and eventually ventures of their own in ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥, while giving startups access to the university talent they need to grow.
Jun 01
Join the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Federal And State Technology Partnership (FAST) program for an exclusive webinar featuring leadership from the Navy SBIR/STTR Program. Learn how the Navy Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program supports innovative small businesses developing technologies aligned with national defense needs and commercialization opportunities. Register at https://forms.gle/6pCM23m4EimbRij89
May 30
This class is a premier interdisciplinary offering at the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥. Run in close alignment with the UAF Center for Innovation and the RISE-UP, or Regional Innovation by Scaling Entrepreneurship via University Partnerships Program initiative, this class flips the script on traditional academic lectures. Rather than reading case studies, students are dropped into real-world, high-stakes sandbox environments to solve active problems facing the Arctic.