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Technology Innovation Program

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ORNL is helping to speed new technologies to market while also building supportive and resilient ecosystems to the benefit of our local, state, and national communities.

The depth and breadth of our wide-ranging, world-leading expertise and facilities are unparalleled and provide a competitive advantage to our partners. The Technology Transfer team is driven by a shared mission to connect the lab’s unique strengths in scientific discovery, clean energy technology, and national security to the world’s biggest challenges.

ORNL’s Technology Innovation Program accelerates commercial adoption of promising lab-developed technologies by making targeted investments that enhance commercial readiness and raise a technology’s visibility in the region. Since 2012, ORNL has invested more than $11 million in 49 projects, resulting in 37 commercial licenses and options with partners ranging from Fortune 100 companies to early-stage startups.

The Technology Innovation Showcase highlights promising technologies developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that show significant potential for commercialization. The showcase brings together ORNL inventors, the Technology Transfer team, and industry representatives for a day of presentations, meetings, tours, and demonstrations.

View and download the program brochure.

2023 Technologies

  • Ultraclean condensing furnaceZhiming Gao, Building and Transportation Science Division
  • Rapid droplet sampling interfaceVilmos Kertesz, Biosciences Division
  • Closed-cell insulation foams enabled by coated and evacuated nanoporous materials, Meghan Lamm, Manufacturing Science Division
  • Mixed plastic recycling by a tailored organocatalystTomonori Saito, Chemical Sciences Division
  • Accelerating the development of orally bioavailable therapeutics for beta-coronaviruses with structure-based molecular designJerry Parks and Brian Sanders, Biosciences Division

Additional presentations include:

  • Unintrusive building leakage visualization and measurement using background oriented schlieren photographyPhilip Boudreaux, Buildings and Transportation Science Division
  • Methods for immunoregulation by modulating plasminogen-apple-nematode (PAN) domain-containing proteins, Wellington Muchero, Biosciences Division
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Register to attend the 2023 Technology Innovation Showcase to be held 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Friday, July 14, on ORNL's campus.

2022 Project Videos

2022 TIP Brochure

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