Innovate Carolina Junction Celebrates One Year of Innovation Impact

Downtown Chapel Hill innovation hub celebrates a year of fostering entrepreneurial growth and strengthening economic connections, reporting impact metrics that drive both innovation and community prosperity.

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Carolina Graduate Certificate in Innovation for the Public Good

The Carolina Graduate Certificate in Innovation for the Public Good (CIPG) gives masters and doctoral students an educational pathway to explore modern changemaking and practice the skills they need to help create meaningful change in the world. The certificate is sponsored by three academic units: the College of Arts and Sciences, Gillings School of Global Public Health, and the School of Education.

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For the tenth year, UNC-Chapel Hill ranks in top 100 for patents granted amongst universities worldwide

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been named to the top 100 list of worldwide universities granted U.S. utility patents for the tenth consecutive year. In its newly released annual Top 100 Worldwide Universities List, the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) spotlights top universities holding U.S. utility patents to showcase the important research and innovation taking place within academic institutions.

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Innovate Carolina Impact Dashboard

How are all the talented minds and new innovations at UNC-Chapel Hill making an economic and social difference in the world? And where is this positive impact happening? Check out Innovate Carolina’s Impact Dashboard.

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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.

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Innovation is
Creativity + Value + Execution

We help faculty, students and staff at UNC-Chapel Hill move more ideas into the world faster to solve the world’s problems and strengthen the economy. We believe that only through rigorously applying the tools of innovation can we solve society’s most complex challenges.

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Innovate Carolina works with a network of campus and community partners to connect innovators and entrepreneurs to a set of tools and resources to support their ideas, initiatives and ventures.

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UNC’s Innovation Impact

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Carolina innovators do more than make new things. We make an impact. On campus. Through the economy. And in the lives of many.
3,745
Invention Disclosures
1,938
Patent Applications
$123.3M
Licensing Revenue
1,061
New U.S. Patents Issued