​​​​​​​UK OTC is thrilled to announce that Serenity Wright, Ed.D. will lead its new Social Innovation team, as Serenity has accepted the position of Associate Director, Social Innovation as part of the Office of Technology Commercialization. Social Innovation is a new focus area under UK Innovate. Her focus will be to advance UK research and innovation that has a high potential for social impact through entrepreneurship, partnership, and other social ventures. With inclusive innovation as a tenet of this initiative, these efforts will increase access to innovation and entrepreneurship programs for underrepresented researchers and work closely with researchers in areas such as social work, social sciences, education, arts, humanities, public health and more.

“The launch of our Social Innovation team is an enormous step for UK, ahead of the field, to invest in advancing research discoveries that have a high potential for social impact, and not just economic impact. We are one of the first universities in the country to take this intentional step forward within our Office of Technology Commercialization," said Ian McClure, AVPR, Innovation and Economic Impact.

"We are super excited to add Holly to our Commercialization team. She brings a wealth of knowledge, particularly in Therapeutics," said Taunya Phillips, Director, Office of Technology Commercialization. OTC has been growing and strengthening the commercialization work that we do with innovators across campus and adding Holly is an important piece of the overall plan."

We launched our "I Am A UK Innovator" campaign at Patent Palooza!

This compilation video features Gilson Capilouto, Kunlei Liu, Madhumathi Rao and Joshua Werner.

Check out the video and watch for the individual videos.

Launch Blue graduated a record number 15 innovators from its UAccel Fall Cohort, with eleven of the teams being affiliated with the University of Kentucky (UK).

Congratulations to all the graduates on their dedication and participation in the program!