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Berkeley Lab's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) fosters strong internal and external partnerships that guide innovations from the Lab toward the marketplace.

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Pitch Competition for Lab Entrepreneurs Coming in October

Pitch Competition for Lab Entrepreneurs Coming in October

Want to practice pitching your science-based business idea to partners and funders? Every year, IPO hosts a pitch …
Register for DOE Tech Talks: Interactive Workshops for Innovation Training and Professional Development

Register for DOE Tech Talks: Interactive Workshops for Innovation Trai…

Are you interested in innovation training but don’t have a lot of time? The DOE Tech Talks ‘22 …
Advanced Manufacturing Office Call for Industrial Decarbonization Proposals

Advanced Manufacturing Office Call for Industrial Decarbonization Prop…

This Department of Energy Technology Commercialization Fund lab call seeks proposals for collaborative projects with industrial partners to …
Ansa Biotechnologies Closes Oversubscribed $68 Million Series A Financing to Power the Next Era of DNA-Enabled Industries (ANSA press release)

Ansa Biotechnologies Closes Oversubscribed $68 Million Series A Financ…

Ansa, a Berkeley Lab/Joint BioEnergy Institute startup company managed by the University of California at Berkeley, has just …

Success Stories

Berkeley Lab Duct Sealing Innovation Saves Energy in Buildings Around the World

Berkeley Lab Duct Sealing Innovation Saves Energy in Buildings Around …

Fixing leaky heating and cooling ducts in buildings can be an expensive, labor-intensive process. Yet doing so can …
Newomics - M3 Emitter

Newomics – M3 Emitter

(updated Sept. 30, 2021) Researchers seeking to cure disease or address environmental and food safety hazards face a …
Graphene-Based Material Takes Audio Tech to the Next Level

Graphene-Based Material Takes Audio Tech to the Next Level

August 26, 2021 Just as clunky cathode ray tube televisions were displaced in the 1980s by flat panel, …