Our interconnected services
Multiple business training programs help grow ideas into impact and innovators into entrepreneurs. Learn more about innovation training.
Developed with researchers and faculty, customized IP plans support innovators and ideas along their paths to market. Learn more about IP advising & protection.
Connections to capital and expert advice empower innovators to launch their projects in the marketplace. Learn more about funding & mentoring.
A world-class infrastructure to license innovations, launch businesses, or incubate startups positions entrepreneurs for success. Learn more about licensing, or about startups & incubation.
For UW researchers ready to share an innovation with us:
For UW researchers new to CoMotion
University of Washington researchers share how CoMotion’s four interconnected programs and services support them on their innovation journey. These innclude innovation training, IP advising & protection, funding & mentorship, and licensing, startups & incubation.
UW innovators launch startups
From environmental solutions to biotech breakthroughs, this video spotlights four University of Washington researchers who launched startups to bring their innovations to the world. Their stories offer inspiration—and a roadmap—for UW innovators ready to make an impact.
Strategic objectives
- Elevate the global impact of the UW through research translation by:
- Increasing the numbers of innovations licensed and startups launched.
- Creating a second to none mentoring environment.
- Enhancing our media presence, and regional, national and international visibility.
- Build a UW innovation ecosystem where everyone thrives by:
- Increasing the number of innovators, founders, and mentors with diverse perspectives and experiences.
- Engaging with units that have untapped potential on all three campuses.
- Addressing gaps in the UW innovation ecosystem through partnerships.
- Identify and pursue new opportunities to lower barriers to entrepreneurship and increase spinoff success by:
- Simplifying and streamlining processes and policies, and demystifying the commercialization journey.
- Meeting the evolving needs of our innovation ecosystem through continuous, data-driven insights and programmatic innovation.
- Creating, nurturing, and strengthening mutually beneficial internal and external partnerships that bolster our local and regional innovation ecosystem.
Other initiatives
Mobility Innovation Center
Advancing our region’s goal to be a global leader in smart city transportation, the University of Washington and Challenge Seattle have partnered with regional transportation agencies to establish the Mobility Innovation Center in the heart of Puget Sound. This multidisciplinary Center brings together the industry’s leading expertise from business, government, non-profit, and academia to help develop new technologies and explore creative solutions that have the potential to change the way we move people, information, and goods across our transportation network.
