Inventions and Products
Discovery is Indiana’s soundest investment. We’re putting our stock in research, and the returns are multiplying. IU researchers are finding new ways to fight and cure disease, protect the environment, and understand the complexities of the universe. IU research is big business for Indiana. We bring in more sponsored research dollars—more than $2.1 billion over the last five years—than all of Indiana’s public and private research universities combined.
- Office of Technology Transfer: Search available technologies, including software and research materials and tools.
- Indiana Life Sciences Initiative: Learn more about IU’s research efforts in the life sciences.
- Office of the Vice Provost for Research: Stay up-to-date on IU research news with the online magazine Research & Creative Activity.
Facts At-A-Glance
- IU faculty and staff filed a record-breaking 167 patent applications in 2008.
- IU research has generated 1,839 inventions, 466 patents, and 34 startup companies.
- IU leads the state in health research. The 578,000 Indiana jobs tied to the health industry account for $21 billion in wages and $8 billion in federal and state taxes.
- One of the world’s fastest supercomputers, the IU Data Capacitor, and the high-speed TeraGrid network are just some of big IT tools we use to analyze massive amounts of data and foster scientific collaboration.
- Simon Hall is the first of two multidisciplinary science and research buildings on the IU Bloomington campus that will increase IU research space and facilitate collaboration and discovery in the life sciences, physics, and mathematics.
