LLNL pursues big ideas to solve the most important security challenges facing the U.S. and the world. In that pursuit, scientific breakthroughs with market potential are discovered, protected and licensed to (or collaborated on) with industry partners through a process called technology transfer. LLNL’s Innovation and Partnerships Office (IPO) facilitate this for the Laboratory across 10 technology portfolios. A key part of enabling the commercialization of LLNL technology for industry use is empowering entrepreneurship. At times, this leads to startup companies founded by Laboratory researchers, but often it looks more like empowering LLNL staff with an entrepreneurial mindset while approaching their mission-based work.
This is why LLNL was one of the first national laboratories to join the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy I-Corps (EIC) program as a pilot nearly a decade ago. Since then, 12 LLNL teams have participated in EIC Training Cohorts.
