The Center for Research Innovation helps accelerate the Northeastern community's entrepreneurial successes by:

• Informing research with corporate context and market needs, increasing entrepreneurial acumen, innovation, visibility;
• Facilitating connections among Northeastern community around educational, mentoring, funding and commercialization opportunities;
• Providing a high-service oriented technology transfer operation, with commercialization friendly policies and procedures;
• Leading funding programs to accelerate translation of innovations to market;
• Offering business development services for product launch and business growth.