Training resources & opportunities
UF Innovate | Pathways serves to empower innovators with training and resources to support innovation and commercialization at UF. Whether you are a faculty member, postdoctoral associate, staff, or student, take advantage of these programs to enhance your knowledge and advance your ideas to market.
Check the UF Innovate website calendar below to access our programs, events, and opportunities.
Educational Programs
Need to know more about technology licensing, raising venture funds, or writing a grant? We’ve got you covered.
Startup Launch Resources
Looking for a place to host your fledgling company or how to fund it? You’re not alone. Start here.
Student Opportunities
Students who want to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship can find opportunities locally and nationally.
Development & Translational Support
If you’re trying to move your discovery from the lab to the marketplace, you might need some tools to make that happen.
Inclusive Entrepreneurship Support
UF and non-UF innovators who are underrepresented in the community can find educational and other resources here.
Address and Directions
Need to ask a question or come see us? Get our contact information, address, and directions here.
Upcoming Opportunities
Looking for training, funding support, competitions, or challenges? This is the place.
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13900 Tech City Circle
4th Ave Food Park
800 Second Building
Alachua Chamber Office
Alachua Farmers Market
Alachua Lions Club
Alachua Woman's Club
Alachua Women's Club
BBVA Compass
Behind UF Innovate | The Hub - SW 7th terrace between 2nd and 3rd Ave
Best Western Gateway Grand
Big Top Brewing Company Gainesville
Blue Gill Quality Food
Bob Graham Center for Public Service
Bryan Hall, Room 130
Cade Museum
Campus USA Credit Union
Cancer Genetics Research Center
Catalyst Building
Chef Brothers 19th Hole
CIED
CIED Office in the new Blount Center
College of Public Health and Health Professions
Communicore Building
Communicore Building, Room C1-7
Commuter Lot
Conestoga's Restaurant
Conestoga's Restauraunt
Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center
Curtis M Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Cypress & Grove Brewing Company
Depot Park
Downtown Festival & Art Show
End Up Bar
EXIT Realty Producers
Feathr
First Magnitude
First Magnitude Brewing Company
Florida Museum of Natural History
Forage Hall Courtyard
Foundation Park
Front Street Commercial Real Estate Group
Gainesville Area Chamber
Gainesville Career Center, CareerSource NCFL
Gainesville Hackerspace--West Shop
Gainesville Raceway
Gainesville Regional Airport
Gerson Hall, Room 229
Graham Center
Greater Gainesville Chamber
GRU Administration building
GTEC
Headquarters Branch Library
Heavener Hall
High Dive
Hilton University of Florida Conference Center
Hippodrome State Theatre
Holiday Inn University Center
Hotel Indigo
Infinite Energy
Infinity Hall
Innovation Square
Innovative Product Development Center
Jonesville Business Center
Lacerta Therapeutics at Copeland Park
Legacy Park Multipurpose Center
LifeSouth Community Blood Center
Madrina’s
Main Street Alachua
Manor On Main Street
Maple Street Biscuit Company
Marriott Fairfield Inn
Martin H. Levin Advocacy Center
Maude's Cafe
Mi Apa Latin Café
Midpoint Park & Eatery
Momentum Labs
New Engineering Building (NEB) - Room 100
Newberry Municipal Building
Online Event
Online Webinar
Peaceful Paths
Pop-a-Top General Store
Progress District
Pugh Hall, University of Florida
Reitz Union, Grand Ballroom
Rion Ballroom
Rion Ballroom - Reitz Union
RTI Surgical Inc.
Saint Leo University
San Felasco Tech City
Sandvik Mining
Santa Fe CIED - Imagination Room
Santa Fe College - Fine Arts Hall
Santa Fe College Perry Center
SCORE North Central Florida
SF CIED
Shula's Steak House
SW 6th Street
Sweetwater Branch Inn
TCC Center for Innovation
TeleTown Hall
The link
The Village at Gainesville
The Warehouse Restaurant and Lounge
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thomas Center
Town of Tioga Clubhouse
Trade PMR
Turkey Creek Golf and Country Club
UF Cancer & Genetics Research Complex, ICBR Auditorium
UF Communicore Building
UF Communicore Building (HSC)
UF Innovate | Accelerate @ Sid Martin Biotech
UF Innovate | Accelerate @ The Hub
UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech
UF Innovate | The Hub
UF Innovate | The Hub & Sid Martin Biotech
UF Marston Science Library Basement
UF Small Business & Vendor Diversity Relations
Video Conference
Working Food
Working Food Community Center
Event Organizer
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10x Genomics
4th Ave Food Park
ACCENT Speakers Bureau
ACEL (Alachua County Emerging Leaders)
AIGA Gainesville
Alachua Business League
Alachua Chamber of Commerce
Alachua Farmers Market
American Planning Association Florida, San Felasco Section
BBC Entrepreneurial Training & Consulting
BBCetc Training
Biofinders
BioFlorida
BioFlorida Northeast Chapter
Bob Graham Center for Public Service
Business Network International - Gainesville
BYPPO
Cade Museum
CareerSource North Central Florida
Celerion
Center for European Studies at the University of Florida
Chimera Creators
City of Alachua
City of Gainesville
City of Gainesville Office of Equal Opportunity
City of Gainesville Office of Equity & Inclusion
City of Gainesville Public Works Department
Co.Accelerator
Collaboratory for Women Innovators
Collective & Co.
Digital Worlds Institute
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center
Entrepreneurship Collective
Feathr
First Magnitude Brewing Company
Florida Business Incubation Association
Florida Museum of Natural History
Florida Venture Forum
Frank Corso
Frontend Awesome! (Gainesville Front End Meetup)
Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce
Gainesville Black Professionals
Gainesville Hackerspace
Gainesville Regional Airport
Gainesville Social Networking and Commercial Network Meetup
Gainesville Tech Association
Gainesville Tech Mornings
Gainesville UX Design Meetup Group
Gator Blockchain Club
GC Entertainment
Greater Gainesville Chamber of Commerce
Greater Gainesville International Center
GrowFL
HR Reality
InBIA
Innovation Square
James Moore
Kineticos
Latin American Business Alliance
Lendio North Florida
Life Science Conferences, LLC
LifeSouth Community Blood Centers
More Customers Academy
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Small Business Program
NSF's SBIR Program
ONESIXONE Group
OUP (Osage University Partners) with Ropes & Gray Quarles
Pepine Realty
Progress Corporate Park
Project Management Institute
Project Management Institute (PMI) Gainesville
PS27 Ventures
RA CAPITAL TELEVISION
Rice Alliance
Rotary Club
Rotary Club of Gainesville
San Felasco Tech City
Santa Fe College Center for Innovation and Economic Development
Santa Fe College IPDC
Scientist Solutions
SCORE North Central Florida
SF CIED
SF IPDC
SF IPDC & Collaboratory for Women Innovators
SF IPDC & TriNet
SharpSpring
Sister City Program of Gainesville, Inc.
Small Business Development Center
StartGNV
Startup Challenge: North Florida
StartupGNV
State Representative Chuck Clemons
Story:GNV
SunTrust Bank
SwampHacks
Synapse
Talking Heads
Tech on Tap GNV
Techie Toastmasters
Techstars
TechStars Startup Programs
TEDxGainesville
TEDxUF
The Emory Group
The Hippodrome Theatre
The HR Lady - Disrupt Gainesville
the link
The Soft Skilled CEO
The Underdog
Thermo Fisher Scientific
UCONN RESEARCH Technology Commercialization Services
UF Center for Undergraduate Research
UF College of Pharmacy and UF Innovate | Tech Licensing
UF Community Relations
UF Distance and Continuing Education
UF Entrepreneurial Diversity and Information Technology (EDIT)
UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
UF ICBR
UF Innovate | Accelerate
UF Innovate | Accelerate @ The Hub
UF Innovate | Pathways
UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech
UF Innovate | Tech Licensing
UF Innovate | The Hub
UF Procurement Services
UF Small Business and Vendor Diversity Relations
UF Warrington College of Business
UF Women in Science and Engineering
ULI North Florida
University of Central Florida and Florida High Tech Corridor Council
University of Connecticut
University of Florida
University of Florida Levin College of Law
USF Connect
VentureWell & LEAP
WATT - We Advance Tech Together
Working Food
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tech
Collaboratory
UF Innovate | The Hub
Oktoberfest
intellectual property law
Wolf Greenfield
SBIR
STTR
Learn about things happening in the City at this month's Alachua Chamber meeting
Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO)
UF Health
UF Innovate
FDA
National Institutes of Health
Biotechnology Innovation Organization
SBIR/STTR
National Cancer Institute
medical device development tools
biomarkers
datasets
Cade
CareerSource North Central Florida
SEO
Lunch & Learn
lunch and learn
scale your startup
legal advice
John Montague
Evan Ferl
Past and Future Events
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Only Past Events
Only Future Events
june
Event Details
NCI Drug Development Workshop: Virtual Series The National Cancer Institute will host a virtual workshop, titled “NCI Drug Development Workshop II:
Event Details
NCI Drug Development Workshop: Virtual Series
The National Cancer Institute will host a virtual workshop, titled “NCI Drug Development Workshop II: Specialized Topics in Preclinical Development of Small Molecule Cancer Drugs.” The workshop will address specialized topics that are important for the preclinical development of small molecule cancer drugs.
This workshop will encompass a series of six free webinar-based lectures from June 22 to July 28 on selected Thursdays and Fridays. Sessions start at 1 p.m. and include 60 to 90 minutes of lectures and 15 minutes of facilitated discussion.
Time
(Thursday) 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
28jun5:00 pmNASA Entrepreneurs Challenge 2023: Funding Opportunity
Event Details
The 2023 NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge recognizes and supports entrepreneurs and visionaries working on technology that advances the agency’s science goals, particularly in lunar exploration and
Event Details
The 2023 NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge recognizes and supports entrepreneurs and visionaries working on technology that advances the agency’s science goals, particularly in lunar exploration and climate science.
To increase participation of entrepreneurs in its technology portfolio, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) will award up to $1,000,000 in total prizes to participants who can successfully contribute ideas that advance the state-of-the-art in two, broadly-defined areas for 2023: Lunar Payloads and Climate Science. Round 1 submissions are due June 28th, 2023. Learn more about the challenge here.
Time
(Wednesday) 5:00 pm
july
Event Details
The annual Connected Patient Challenge is one way Boston Scientific engages with the startup community to drive meaningful innovation. The Challenge is a global contest designed
Event Details
The annual Connected Patient Challenge is one way Boston Scientific engages with the startup community to drive meaningful innovation. The Challenge is a global contest designed to address unmet healthcare needs by encouraging companies and individuals to leverage digital health tools to optimize patient care and healthcare efficiency. New this year to the Boston Scientific Connected Patient Challenge VII, they are seeking solutions that fall under two different challenge areas of interest. Entrepreneurs and researchers working on specific solutions can apply:
- Digital Health Challenge: Solutions that can generate meaningful insights and aid clinical decision making.
- Peripheral Vascular and Oncology Challenge: Solutions that enhance the management of the peripheral vascular disease, clot management and interventional oncology.
You can apply to either of the Connected Patient Challenge areas of interest through the application portal. Submit your idea for a chance to pitch your innovation live to a panel of celebrity judges in Boston, MA. Winners of each challenge will receive $15,000 of in-kind services from Boston Scientific and a coveted place the M2D2 IMPACT accelerator. Additionally, the winner of the MeHI spotlight award will receive a $10,000 cash prize.
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(Monday) 11:59 pm
31jul11:59 pmBARDA DRIVe Funding Opportunities and Areas of Interest
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Up to $750,000 is available for from the Office of Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Division of Research, Innovation & Ventures (DRIVe)! BARDA
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Up to $750,000 is available for from the Office of Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Division of Research, Innovation & Ventures (DRIVe)! BARDA continues to offer ongoing, long-term support for innovations in the health security/medical countermeasures, and testing/diagnostics spaces.
Please refer to the current BARDA program for full details.
Time
(Monday) 11:59 pm
september
05sep11:59 pmNIH SBIR & STTR Grant Funding Opportunities
Event Details
SBIR and STTR grant funding opportunities offer small business entrepreneurs a chance to obtain non-dilutive funding for early-stage research and development. Applications are accepted three
Event Details
SBIR and STTR grant funding opportunities offer small business entrepreneurs a chance to obtain non-dilutive funding for early-stage research and development. Applications are accepted three times a year. The next receipt date is Tuesday, September 5th, 2023.
NIH advertises the availability of grant support through notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs).
Learn how to apply and what to do if you encounter systems issues.
Time
(Tuesday) 11:59 pm
06sep11:59 pmNIH SBIR & STTR Grant Funding Opportunities
Event Details
The NIH Small Business Program is accepting applications for SBIR & STTR funding. Learn more about these open opportunities. Learn
Event Details
The NIH Small Business Program is accepting applications for SBIR & STTR funding. Learn more about these open opportunities.
Learn how to apply and what to do if you encounter systems issues.
Next receipt date: Wednesday, April. 6, 2023.
Time
(Wednesday) 11:59 pm