UI Ventures is a service provided to the faculty, staff, and graduate students at the University of Iowa. Their mission is to support commercialization of innovative University of Iowa technology through spinouts with the goal of enhancing economic development as an extension of research and scholarship.
Founded in 1999, Brightidea launched the first-ever online innovation platform in 2005. The platform was designed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of any organization’s innovation process. Today, Brightidea’s innovation program management software helps world class organizations by offering a complete suite of capabilities that cover the entire innovation journey.