NC State University research helps turn today\u2019s ideas into tomorrow\u2019s solutions. That\u2019s core to our land-grant mission. The Chancellor\u2019s Innovation Fund (CIF), a competitive internal seed fund, has proven to be a powerful way we support that mission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chancellor Randy Woodson established the CIF in 2010 to help more NC\u00a0State research bridge the gap between public and private funding \u2014 and ultimately turn into technology that both benefits consumers and addresses pressing problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The CIF awards a select few of NC\u00a0State\u2019s best and brightest innovators tens of thousands each year to support short-term, commercially focused research projects. Over the course of the project \u2014 and for as long as needed afterward \u2014 awardees also receive help from the Office of Research Commercialization (ORC), which manages the CIF. ORC comprises business experts, intellectual property lawyers and others who can get researchers to start thinking more like startup founders \u2014 and make sure they\u2019re in the right place and in touch with the right people at the right time.<\/p>\n\n\n
The CIF awards a select few of NC\u00a0State\u2019s best and brightest innovators tens of thousands each year to support short-term, commercially focused research projects. Over the course of the project \u2014 and for as long as needed afterward \u2014 awardees also receive help from the Office of Research Commercialization (ORC), which manages the CIF. ORC comprises business experts, intellectual property lawyers and others who can get researchers to start thinking more like startup founders \u2014 and make sure they\u2019re in the right place and in touch with the right people at the right time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NC State University research helps turn today\u2019s ideas into tomorrow\u2019s solutions. That\u2019s core to our land-grant mission. The Chancellor\u2019s Innovation Fund (CIF), a competitive internal seed fund, has proven to be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":15411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-post-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"displayCategoryID\":2,\"showAuthor\":false,\"showDate\":true,\"showFeaturedVideo\":false,\"subtitle\":\"The Chancellor's Innovation Fund has selected six more research projects to support this coming year.\",\"showReadingTime\":false}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47,49,54,82,170,187,188],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"class_list":["post-15416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chancellors-innovation-fund","tag-cif","tag-commercialization","tag-funding","tag-research","tag-startup","tag-startups"],"displayCategory":{"term_id":2,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":150,"filter":"raw"},"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":null},"yoast_head":"\n