Welcome to Inside Innovation! Every day, Princeton researchers are pursuing life-changing discoveries, and the Office of Innovation is right there to support and help grow the impact of those breakthroughs. This new report showcases those discoveries, the people driving them, and the services that our office provides. I am excited to share with you the groundbreaking work emerging across our campus.

Learn about the resources available and how the Office of Innovation serves Princeton University’s campus-wide innovation ecosystem through: 

Technology Licensing and New Ventures

Strategic Partnerships and Engagement

Innovation Infrastructure and Programs

Save the date for the Princeton Innovation Conference at Reunions on May 22, 2026, and if you’re not already a member, please join the Princeton Innovation Network for additional opportunities to engage. Let’s keep working together to build bridges, break barriers and benefit society.

Best wishes,

Craig B. Arnold

Vice Dean for Innovation and University Innovation Officer, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

Faces of Innovation

Faces of Innovation highlights leaders from across the innovation ecosystem. Follow the Office of Innovation on LinkedIn, X, and Instagram to see new features each month.

"Surround yourself with people who challenge your assumptions and expand your imagination. Princeton is full of them!"

Read the Faces of Innovation profile on Felix Heide.

"If you’re willing to keep learning, iterating, and pushing forward before the world understands why it matters, you’re already ahead."

Read the Faces of Innovation profile on Sean Zheng.

By the Numbers

Numbers reported for July 1, 2025 through January 1, 2026.

Office of Innovation Resources

As part of the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology’s Research with New Jersey initiative, the Research with Princeton portal is a public, searchable database designed to foster research collaborations with Princeton University scholars. The portal spurs discovery and innovation by helping connect researchers across disciplines, across institutions, and with industry. The portal allows users to review the profiles and research of hundreds of Princeton faculty in the science, technology, engineering, and policy disciplines. Visit the Research with Princeton portal.

University Innovations and News

AI and the humanities: Across the Princeton campus, an era of collaboration is underway

Photon Junction makes an impact at international photonics conference

Four innovative projects selected for 2025 Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund awards

The search for the next big breakthrough at Princeton