The Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence (IEE), the unit of the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship dedicated to providing small business entrepreneurs throughout Western Pennsylvania with education, consulting, and networking opportunities to help them launch, grow and transition their businesses.
The adage goes, it takes a village to raise a child. To translate a technology developed from Pitt research to market takes a thriving, expanding innovation ecosystem.
When it comes to academic innovation and entrepreneurship, Pitt is blessed with an overflowing roster of 5-star recruits. They are putting points on the board, submitting a new invention disclosure to the Innovation Institute, part of the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, every single day of the year on average; being issued more than 100 patents; and having their technologies licenses more than 130 times in the last fiscal year.
Hilary Liu and Ben Leslie are both Pitt School of Medicine students enduring the tremendous rigor that entails.