Program areas at Arizona State University Enterprise Partners
See schedule oprogram service activity #1ep through its subsidiary university realty aims to advance Asu by accepting and monetizing commercial office, retail, multifamily buildings, as well as vacant land received from philanthropic real estate gifts from donors. Additionally, they take advantage of opportunities to invest, acquire, and dispose of real estate at logical points in real estate cycles. University realty provides full service, ground-up development including acquisitions and entitlements of land, master-planning and building design, construction, and financing of office, industrial, and multi-family projects. Currently, the organization holds $79.4 million in land and building investments.university realty oversees projects nationwide, from skysong in scottsdale, to the brickyard in tempe, to the Washington center in the heart of the district of columbia, to the herald examiner building in los angeles.
See schedule oprogram service activity #3ep manages investment pools and programs that generate revenue through investments in education technology companies and an angel investor membership program to advance asu-affiliated startups.
See schedule oprogram service activity #2ep through its subsidiary skysong innovations works with Asu faculty, postdocs, and students to translate their research innovations into commercial applications. To date, more than 160 startups have been launched based on Asu innovations, attracting more than $833 million in funding from outside investors, generating substantial local economic impact. The national academy of inventors and the intellectual property owners association now ranks Asu 8th in u.s. utility patents granted to universities worldwide. Other universities ranked alongside Asu in the top 20 include mit, stanford university, johns hopkins university, harvard and the California institute of technology. Skysong innovations also operates an office out of the Asu California center in santa monica, facilitating linkages between the Arizona and southern California innovation ecosystems, including connecting Asu inventors with california-based investors.