Encourage and support economic development and an entrepreneurial culture.
Augments our campus' current capacity for pre-award and post-award activities in various ways, including, but not necessarily limited to, economic development, entrepreneurial activities, student research support and faculty hiring.
Unlock the value of the vast amount of data SUNY has available to align SUNY System’s current and future investments to effectively boost the campus’ own strategic investment in research infrastructure.
Play a critical and collaborative role in supporting campus research efforts through advocacy, communications, and fostering connections.
The Empire Innovation Program (EIP) supports the recruitment and retention of faculty with strong track record of research accomplishments. EIP hires expand SUNY's research capacity in strategic priority areas while also strengthening areas where SUNY has a recognized leadership position.
The Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) helps faculty turn their research into market-ready technologies through early-stage grants and investments that support critical commercialization milestones to improve market readiness of the technology.
SUNY Startup Summer School (S4) is a virtual accelerated entrepreneurial education, training, and mentoring program that is custom designed to provide every participant with knowledge and networks that will enable them to commercialize breakthrough technology.
SUNY STARTUP Grant Works matches high-potential SUNY-affiliated technologies and companies with curated and timely proposal development support to secure non-dilutive funding to de-risk technology, validate markets, and build teams.
SUNY STARTUP Design Studio provides professional design and marketing support to help SUNY-affiliated startups create or refine their logo, tagline, and brand identity.
SUNY Venture Advisors are highly experienced business executives and startup founders that provide mentorship and coaching to SUNY-affiliated innovators, entrepreneurial teams, and portfolio companies..
Launched in 2018, the SUNY Research Seed Grant Program provides funding to catalyze and support SUNY faculty in the pursuit of large external grants in strategic priority areas. Awards are provided annually through a competitive RFP process under multiple tracks including large Center scale planning and development grants, multidisciplinary small team awards, and NIH proposal resubmission support awards. A new COVID seed grant program was launched in 2020.
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The SUNY-IBM AI Collaborative Research Alliance is a strategic partnership between two institutions with broad and deep AI expertise and a commitment to advancing the state of the art in AI. Research and development projects conducted under this alliance will focus on AI science, applications, and hardware, promoting both scientific outputs and technology commercialization opportunities.
The SUNY Applied Materials Research Institute (SAMRI) is a strategic alliance that focuses on a broad set of areas including advanced materials, energy storage, optical/photonic/quantum devices, packaging and integration technologies, nanoscale processing and technologies, and biomedical devices and analytics.
SUNY Research Forward Webinar Series is designed to enhance the skills of faculty seeking federal funding for their research. This virtual, interactive forum brings to SUNY, experts from various federal agencies, to share details on emerging research challenges and new funding opportunities.
The Innovare Advancement Center aims to be a global catalyst to converge research talent with cutting edge facilities and focused technology challenges to accelerate the development of capabilities that protect and empower our country.
The SUNY Research Seed Grant Program provides funding to catalyze and support SUNY faculty in the pursuit of large external grants in strategic priority areas. Awards are provided annually through a competitive RFP process under multiple tracks.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) and NIH NRSA Application Development Webinars
These application development webinar series are designed to support and provide training to students pursuing prestigious national NSF’s GRFP and NRSA fellowships.
The SUNY Graduate Research Empowering and Accelerating Talent (GREAT) program is a one-time, $5,000 award given to SUNY students who win recognition in a Federal pre-doctoral research-based fellowship competition.
ORIED’s Research Analytics program is uncovering SUNY's system-wide research capacities and competencies. Our dashboards leverage data from multiple sources to present a wholistic and actionable view of the SUNY research enterprise.
The SUNY Grants for Research, Opportunity, and Workforce (GROW) Support Unit will provide direct support to all SUNY campuses in identifying and securing grant and contract funding from federal, state, local and other sources to support research and scholarship, with a specific focus on activities that will expand economic mobility and create workforce opportunity for New Yorkers.
The Artificial Intelligence Multiprocessing Optimized System, AiMOS, was launched by a unique partnership between New York State, IBM, RPI and SUNY. With 8 peta-flops configured to enable exploration of new AI applications, AiMOS is the most powerful supercomputer in the State of New York. Located at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, it serves as test bed for the New York State-IBM Research AI Hardware Center and is accessible to faculty and students from SUNY to conduct research.
