The Center for Innovation and Development provides a broad range of interaction to manufacturers, inventors, and entrepreneurs through collaboration with students, faculty, and staff. Services include feasibility assessment, product engineering and design, prototype development, product evaluation, and patent advice. Initial consultation is conducted at the University in complete confidence for no charge. Fees are assessed for design and development services, and are identified at the outset of the project.
This outreach is intended to promote the commercialization of innovative products and technologies. Eligible products are disclosed to WiSys in pursuit of license agreements.
The Center is sponsored in part by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, Small Business Development Center network, and is one of several entities of the Stout Technology Transfer Institute.
Jerry Johnson, Director; Phone: 715/232-1457 cid@uwstout.edu