Innovation & Entrepreneurship

The University of Colorado jumped from No. 53 to No. 20 in a recent global ranking of the top 100 universities granted U.S. utility patents. All four campuses contributed to CU’s total 100+ patents, with CU Boulder contributing 60.

CU Boulder athletic director Rick George announced Monday the creation of "Buffs with a Brand," a department program that will coordinate NIL (Name, Image and Likeness) programming for the school's student-athlete.

CU Boulder researchers and the CU spinoff VitriVax Inc., are focused on finding a way to get vaccines to 7.8 billion people. The research team is able to do so with funding, licensing and startup support from Venture Partners at CU Boulder, the university’s commercialization arm.

CU Boulder biomedical engineer Jacob Segil is working to bring back a sense of touch for amputees, including veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Instructor Chris Koehler, the founder and managing director of CU Boulder’s space minor, raided the bargain bin at Time Warp Comics in Boulder to create care packages with assorted comics, stickers, a personal note and other goodies for more than 100 students.

Meet David Goldberg: A 2010 Leeds School of Business graduate and CEO of Cyberspaces, a platform to play social games with friends that has video chat built in.

Carla Cruz, a junior majoring in integrative physiology, won CU Boulder’s inaugural Map the System competition for her research on improving diabetes management in Latinx populations throughout the U.S. Map the System invites students to look deeper into the complex social and environmental problems found in the modern world, using...

Knowles, a finance and information management sophomore at the Leeds School of Business, recently co-founded GyftCO. They company connects struggling local businesses with a larger community by providing an outlet to sell e-gift cards.

Aaron Aboaf is leading a team of students on a million-dollar satellite development project to advance space communications technology — all from his childhood bedroom in Aurora, Colorado.

Launched this month by the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the Leeds School of Business, COventure Forward is designed to connect small businesses, start-ups, scale-ups and entrepreneurs to a seasoned mentorship network.