Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization

The Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise & Commercialization (CCTEC) is Cornell University's technology transfer office. The Center manages technology and plant varieties for Cornell University at the main campus in Ithaca, the Weill Cornell Medical College campus in New York City, and the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva. The Center's goal is to support Cornell's land-grant mission and to promote public good by connecting Cornell technology to industry and business development efforts. Every fall, the Center hosts the Cornell Technology Venture Forum where inventors and entrepreneurs can present their technologies and business models to venture capital and angel investors. In the spring, CCTEC hosts a New Business & Emerging Technology Showcase as part of the annual Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration for inventors and business representatives to present their emerging technologies and startup companies to hundreds of alumni, entrepreneurs, investors, and industry members. CCTEC manages inventions from disciplines including veterinary medicine, nanoscale engineering, chemistry, plant breeding, materials science, and medicine. CCTEC licenses Cornell technologies to industry partners from all 50 states and in Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Central and South America. Cornell inventions are patented in over forty countries.