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IU Inc.
Indiana University
Driving economic competitiveness and global leadership

A new era of engagement and innovation

IU Inc. is a nonprofit entity built to strengthen the university’s partnerships with industry, startups, and government agencies to drive real world impact, revenue generation, and new opportunities for faculty and students.

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The big picture

Amplifying IU’s $1 billion research enterprise

IU Inc. represents a new path forward for IU, creating a front door for industry engagement.

IU Inc. will convert innovation into tangible economic and societal impact through revenue-generating activities, reducing barriers to collaboration, enabling new partnership models that are difficult to pursue within traditional university structures, and expanding opportunities for faculty, staff and students. These include large-scale industry collaborations, consortium-led federal grants, applied research initiatives and joint ventures that accelerate discovery, commercialization and economic impact.

The organization will also enhance IU’s ability to compete for large-scale, multi-organization research projects, including public-private partnerships and consortium-led federal grants, in high-demand fields such as biosciences, microelectronics, artificial intelligence and national security.

The vision

Strategic operating units

IU Inc. will initially house three core subsidiaries, with the ability to add others that meet IU and industry needs.
  • Equipment from the Multidisciplinary Engineering and Sciences Hall (MESH) at IU Bloomington
    Safeguarding the nation

    IU Applied Research Center (ARC)

    A university-wide initiative to support national security through applied R&D and talent development in partnership with state, federal and industry partners.

  • Professor Feng Guo’s lab in Bloomington, Indiana.
    Elevating bioscience

    IU Launch Accelerator for Biosciences (IU LAB)

    IU’s signature life science innovation initiative driving research commercialization, industry partnerships and workforce development at the intersection of bioscience and technology.

  • Downtown Indianapolis
    Proactive use of assets

    IU Realty

    IU Realty is focused on activating non-academic real estate to be able to generate revenue, attract companies and talent, or anticipate real estate needs to support IU’s mission and vision through IU Inc.

IU Inc. will strengthen our ability to move at the speed of industry to bring new ideas to market and into communities, expand opportunities for our faculty and students and advance IU’s role as a driver of innovation and economic growth for Indiana and beyond.

Pamela Whitten
President, Indiana University
News

Research in action

Stay up to date with the latest news about IU Inc.
  • Health and Wellness|Science and Technology

    IU LAB marks a year of industry partnerships, bioscience startup growth, student innovation

    Monday, February 2, 2026
  • Health and Wellness|Science and Technology

    IU’s musculoskeletal research brings better health solutions to communities and collaborators

    Monday, January 26, 2026
  • Health and Wellness|Science and Technology

    Lilly and IU to expand access to clinical trials and latest innovative treatments for Hoosiers

    Wednesday, December 3, 2025
  • IU Inc. in the news