Rocket Innovations

History

To promote entrepreneurship at The University of Toledo through active student and faculty engagement in research and technology commercialization, in 2009 The University of Toledo established both a Technology Commercialization Center called Rocket Innovations and a $10M pre-seed Venture Fund. The Center has connections to two primary facilities and a Business Incubator:

Business Incubator The Nitschke Technology Commercialization Complex

A 40,000 square-foot facility with office, conference and manufacturing space, wet and dry labs, an ISO 7 clean room, and facilities that support co-working typically used by early-stage startups. It also has state-of-the-art conference rooms with tele/video conferencing capabilities and a multi-media center for hi-quality video production and editing.

The current Executive Director of Rocket Innovations joined the University in 2016 and brought specific expertise to accelerate tech-based project identification and acceleration, He currently serves as the Principal Investigator (PI) of several grants, including the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Site program, the Advance & I-Corps Joint Program.