This story is part of an initiative led by the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) to highlight entrepreneurship and innovation across Indiana’s universities. Learn more about the initiative here. Spring 2025 sees the inaugural cohort of the Accelerator program come together for transformative growth through the power of the Purdue entrepreneurial ecosystem. These exceptional founders and teams were chosen from an incredible amount of Purdue-connected talent during the initial application cycle. The program officially begins March 26 at the Convergence Center for Innovation and Collaboration in the Discovery Park District at Purdue. “We are incredibly excited to kick off the very first iteration of the Purdue Innovates Accelerator,” Purdue Innovates Incubator Associate Director Doug Applegate said. “The innovation and talent on display is incredible. Our team can’t wait to help them take their next giant leap over the next [...]

This story is part of an initiative led by the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) to highlight entrepreneurship and innovation across Indiana’s universities. Learn more about the initiative here. Purdue Innovates and three Purdue University colleges have announced four recipients of a Commercialization Fellowship. The fellowship provides recent Ph.D. graduates and postdoctoral researchers an opportunity to advance the commercialization of Purdue-owned intellectual property. Alongside faculty inventors, each fellow will work towards a ready-to-license technology or a defined pathway to a startup company. Their work is based on intellectual property already disclosed to the Purdue Innovates Office of Technology Commercialization, which operates one of the most comprehensive technology transfer programs among leading research universities in the U.S. College of Engineering Inventor: Xiulin Ruan Andrea Felicelli Andrea Felicelli sees a world of possibilities emerging from her work developing cooling technology and paints that can [...]