Bring us your goals and ideas. Together, we’ll make them reality.

Accelerate—and de–risk—your innovation initiatives by leveraging our mature research and applying it in a context that’s relevant to your business. Embed doctoral students and post docs with deep knowledge in critical fields matched specifically to your R&D needs. 

Founders and investors: Northeastern is reinventing the way universities support entrepreneurs—through one of the most extensive entrepreneurial support systems in the world. Entrepreneurs will find the courses, residencies, accelerators, bootcamps, and mentor network to innovate, rapid prototype, launch, and scale ideas. And investors can access a growing and dynamic pipeline of startups. 

Benefit from Northeastern’s flexible IP-sharing policies and pipeline of solutions-driven science by collaborating with our Center for Research Innovation to accelerate the translation of research and intellectual property into cutting-edge industry products and services.  

Let us help you create a uniquely talented and experienced workforce. Through our Experiential Network (XN), Service-Learning projects, and best-in-class co-op program, we’ll connect you with students who have the skills and leadership to fulfill your short-term project or longer-term hiring needs. 

Access smart, talented students for short- or longer-term projects and work-for-hire programs that support your organization’s teams. Our experiential learning model helps match projects by students and student groups with real-world challenges that meet your needs. They receive mentoring and experience; you get results.  

We’ll work closely with you to identify specific skill gaps and areas of opportunity in your workforce and contextualize a curriculum—short courses, certificates, degrees, executive education—experiential projects, tech stacks, and tools to help members of your organization develop technical and critical thinking skills. 

Northeastern’s cross-sector network of faculty and industry experts, flexible shared IP, and co-management structure makes it easy to form effective partnerships and consortia able to take on ambitious challenges with a more open-ended, exploratory emphasis.