Northeastern’s Center for Research Innovation (CRI) is proud to announce the Fall 2024 Spark Fund awardees. This cohort represents the cutting edge of innovation, showcasing projects with the potential to drive commercial impact across diverse fields, from intracellular chemistry to advanced robotics and climate resilience.
What is the Spark Fund?
The Spark Fund is a vital program that helps bridge the gap between early-stage research at Northeastern University and commercialization in industry. By providing grants of up to $50,000, the program empowers Northeastern researchers to refine their inventions, build commercially ready prototypes, generate in vivo data, and develop solutions that address industry needs. Each cycle, awardees present their projects to a panel of industry experts who evaluate their commercial viability.
“Each Spark Fund awardee represents the best of innovation at Northeastern, and we are thrilled to support these researchers as they translate their groundbreaking ideas into real-world solutions,” says Jennifer Boyle Lynch, Executive Director of the CRI.
Since its creation, the Spark Fund has provided $2.35M across 42 teams and generated $3.5M in external capital resulting from the creation of 10 spinout companies and 18 licensed/optioned projects.
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