Campuses

Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff

Arizona State University, Greater Phoenix Area:

ASU at the Tempe Campus: “Empowering Global Competitiveness” is a transdisciplinary academic community advancing the core historical disciplines, including the arts and humanities, the natural and social sciences, engineering, and the professional schools.

ASU at the Polytechnic Campus:  One of the nation’s premier polytechnics, whose graduates are grounded in experience-based learning and applications-based problem solving.

ASU at the West Campus:  A campus that balances the traditions of a liberal arts education with responsiveness to the dynamics of the workforce, ASU at the West campus is committed to teaching and research that are transdisciplinary, collaborative, and problem-based.

ASU at the Downtown Phoenix Campus:  ASU is a key stake-holder in the revitalization of the historic urban core of Phoenix, in partnership with the city, its neighborhoods, and businesses.

University of Arizona; Tucson

Corporate Relations Offices:

Arizona State University, Office of Corporate Relations:

The Office of Corporate Relations connects businesses based on their needs and requirements with the respective areas and units within ASU.

Northern Arizona University, Public Affairs:

The Office of Public Affairs works to advance Northern Arizona University's mission and vision and to promote the accomplishments of students, faculty and staff.

University of Arizona, Office of Corporate Relations:

The Office of Corporate Relations serves as the link between The University of Arizona and the business community.  The Office supports business by promoting workforce development, executive education, and the development of research collaborations. 

Technology Licensing:

Arizona State University: Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE) works with university inventors and industry to transform scientific progress into products and services. Arizona Technology Enterprises transfers technologies invented at ASU to the private sector by mining university research, prosecuting patents, negotiating licenses, and marketing inventions. For further information click on AzTE’s available technology portfolios and spinout ventures.

University of Arizona:  The Office of Technology Transfer assists faculty with intellectual property development, facilitates relationships with commercial partners, and helps to create strategies to bring inventions and discoveries to market.

Click to here to access UA technologies and other research assets available to organizations and individuals for development, application and societal benefit.  

University Business Assistance:

Arizona State University

Visit the ASU online business portal by clicking here. It will help to connect you and your specific business’ needs and requirements with the respective areas and units within ASU.

ASU Technopolis is a high impact and focused initiative to provide educational programming to start-up innovators and entrepreneurs. Its signature program, Launch Pad, offers rigorous one-on-one coaching to refine an entrepreneur’s business concept and strategy. Additional course offerings, including the Launch Prep Entrepreneurship Course, the Mentoring Program and the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) workshops, provide entrepreneurs the necessary elements to successful growth.

ASU is the home of a variety of entrepreneurial programs such as the Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative, the Entrepreneurial Programs Office and the Spirit of Enterprise Center. If you would like to become engaged as a business mentor, supporter, speaker or industry expert, please send an email to business-info@asu.edu.

KAET-TV/Channel 8 is a trusted community resource that enriches the lives of all Arizonans through quality programs and education services that inform, inspire and entertain. In partnership with Arizona State University, KAET also serves as a trusted, independent catalyst for community involvement. KAET’s Small Business Partner program can help your small business grow and advance by providing promotion on TV, networking opportunities with colleagues, and applicable information to stay connected.

Arizona State University Research Park, located 6 miles south of ASU’s Tempe campus, is an unparalleled opportunity to join a vibrant corporate community with ties to a comprehensive research university.

SkySong (ASU-Scottsdale Innovation Center) is expressly designed to attract innovators, since it will be an interactive, global enterprise portal, linking technology, innovation, education and business assets.

University of Arizona

The Office of the Vice President for Research, Graduate Studies and Economic Development (OVPR) oversees a broad range of research and research-related activities. Its missions include enhancing, expanding, and encouraging the research mission of the University; melding more traditional academic activities with current research in related disciplines to enhance the all-around educational goals of the University, and assisting in the development of new resources and the application of new technologies to benefit the University and the state.

The Office of Research and Contract Analysis (ORCA) negotiates and executes contractual agreements under which the University's research services are made available to local and national companies.

The Eller College and with its McGuire Entrepreneurship Program strives to link the business and academic communities, to conduct exchanges in entrepreneurship between faculty and students of the University of Arizona, the business community, other universities, and other countries, and to conduct business/academic seminars and exchange programs.

The Arizona Center for Innovation (AZCI) is a high-tech incubator promoting the development of high technology companies in Southern Arizona through a disciplined program of business development. The Center focuses on companies in six technology areas: aerospace, advanced composites and materials, information technology, environmental technology, life sciences and optics/photonics.

Sponsored Projects Services prepares and manages grant proposals submitted to federal agencies, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

Doing Business with Arizona’s Universities

Arizona State University:

Contact the Purchasing and Business Services Department.

Northern Arizona University:

Contact Purchasing Services.

University of Arizona:

Contact Procurement and Contracting Services.