About CCTEC

Commercializing Cornell Inventions

The Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization (CCTEC) connects industry partners to technological innovations created by Cornell researchers. CCTEC facilitates the commercialization of Cornell technologies by securing the proper intellectual property rights protection, and by marketing and licensing the technologies to business. CCTEC supports faculty in Ithaca, Geneva and New York City.

In keeping with Cornell's land grant mission, to boost the regional economy, CCTEC helps create new businesses based on Cornell innovations. By exposing Cornell technology ideas to world-wide venture capital and management talent, CCTEC connects local inventors and entrepreneurs to capital, creating jobs and attracting investment to New York State.

CCTEC in Action

Technology transfer begins with building relationships. CCTEC professionals interact with Cornell faculty members and administrators, patent counsel, industry representatives, entrepreneurs, investors, and government officials. In an increasingly competitive marketplace where companies rely on new product ideas to maintain a competitive edge, university intellectual property is valuable.

Reflective of Cornell's broad research endeavors, CCTEC manages inventions from disciplines including veterinary medicine, nanoscale engineering, chemistry, plant breeding, materials science, and medicine. CCTEC licenses Cornell technologies to industry partners from all 50 states and in Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Central and South America. Cornell inventions are patented in over forty countries.