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Innovate Carolina – UNC Chapel Hill’s department for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Innovate Carolina provides a suite of offerings to help you make your ideas work. They are designed for today’s problem solvers: Innovation-minded faculty, students and others in the Carolina community, and the enterprising local innovators who use their ingenuity to nudge the world forward. Connect with us – and get started wherever you are.

UNC’s Innovation Impact

Carolina innovators do more than make new things. We make an impact. On campus. Through the economy. And in the lives of many.
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Invention Disclosures
1,938
Patent Applications
$123.3M
Licensing Revenue
1,061
New U.S. Patents Issued