Princeton Intellectual Property Accelerator Fund
Funds Princeton investigators moving university inventions toward licensing through proof-of-concept and prototype grants.
Princeton University administers the Intellectual Property Accelerator Fund as an internal development grant within its Dean for Research funding portfolio. The fund closes the gap between early university research and technology that can be licensed to a startup or an existing company. Awards provide up to USD 100,000 for six to twelve months. Eligible costs include graduate and postdoctoral sala…
Proof-of-concept experiments, supporting data, prototypes and other development work that makes a disclosed Princeton invention easier to license.
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