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.
Across the University of Pittsburgh, women faculty, students, alumni, and regional small business owners are showing what is Possible at Pitt, by breaking new paths as innovators and entrepreneurs. For Women Entrepreneurship Week we are highlighting just a few of these women whose passion and ingenuity have resulted in new companies and new initiatives for making positive change at Pitt and in the world.
The Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship staff are dedicated to helping Pitt faculty and student innovators and regional small businesses make an impact for their ideas and research in the wilder world beyond the university. We will be introducing you to some of those people who work day in and day out to protect and promote intellectual property, provide innovation commercialization education, mentoring and funding opportunities, and engage with industry, investment, economic development, and other external innovation partners.
Andrele St. Val, assistant professor in the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is developing a platform for improving legal education to build resilience, wellbeing, and inclusivity.