Resources

The IDEA Center offers a variety of services and resources for researchers at all stages of ideation.

Commercialization Funding

The Commercialization Engine funding program offers milestone-based funding to help develop and de-risk technologies.

Innovation Lab

The Innovation Lab at the IDEA Center offers a comprehensive set of hand tools, 3D printers and more with which to build a basic tangible device and prototypes.

Innovation Park is a 95,000-square foot technology and entrepreneurship facility at the University of Notre Dame. It serves as a site of nucleation where productive collisions between individuals such as entrepreneurs and inventors, students and investors, and subject matter experts and University staff routinely take place.

Drug Discovery Think Tank Program

The Indiana CTSI Preclinical Innovation “Think Tank” program serves as a one-stop shop for PIs to receive guidance from a pool of advisors including experts in drug discovery and development with academic and industrial experience and members who can answer scientific, technical, clinical, business, and regulatory questions.

Medical Devices Think Tank Program

We support Indiana CTSI associated investigators who are working to advance their innovative medical devices and software ideas through early phase development toward commercialization and clinical use.