Brown Technology Innovations

Brown Technology Innovations

The mission of Brown Technology Innovations is to put Brown University’s technology first to drive commercial outcomes that benefit the University and society.

Putting Brown Technology First

The Brown University technology transfer office, called Brown Technology Innovations (BTI), supports the commercialization of technology and research discoveries made by Brown faculty and researchers. 

Brown Technology Innovations strives to provide faculty and inventors with the resources and support necessary to bring their ideas to impact.
From brain science to biomedical engineering to the arts and humanities, Brown researchers fuel discovery, solve global problems and confront complex 21st century challenges with a relentless focus on the greater good.

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Meet the team behind Brown Technology Innovations and learn about their expertise, roles and areas of inquiry.
Brown Technology Innovations’ 2022 Annual Report includes stories about faculty inventors, startup companies Bolden Therapeutics (Justin Fallon and Ashley Webb), PedialyDX (Barry Lester) and XM Therapeutics (Jeff Morgan) and new initiatives for FY23. (PDF)
Commercialization of inventions based on university research is an important way to develop valuable products as well as an effective mechanism to disseminate knowledge gained from basic research. Many products on the market today originated from basic research conducted at universities.  

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Mathematics and engineering professor George Karniadakis was noted as a machine learning expert to follow by Digilab Academy based on his groundbreaking work in Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs).
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