UC Davis provides its business and industry partners a competitive advantage. As one of the nation's top research universities, we are a valued source of professional talent, research, technology and executive education. Businesses large and small, in turn, provide private support that helps us maintain our excellence and continue to produce the research and ideas they need to thrive.
Research and technology alliances
UC Davis InnovationAccess (Formerly UC Davis Technology and Industry Alliances/UC Davis CONNECT)
- Provides services that connect research to the marketplace and are focused specifically on protecting and commercializing intellectual property, fostering entrepreneurship within the campus community and developing strategic research alliances with industry.
- Offers a database, Available Technologies, with inventor information and search, worldwide patent status and RSS feeds.
- Provides access to a current list of all non-confidential descriptions, known in the business world as NCDs, that are available for licensing from UC Davis.
Business development
- UC Davis InnovationAccess (Formerly UC Davis Technology and Industry Alliances/UC Davis CONNECT)
- UC Davis Center for Entrepreneurship
Corporate Relations
We help companies access opportunities at UC Davis with faculty expertise and programs, student interns and recruits, continuing education and executive training, sponsorships of sports and arts events.
Giving to UC Davis
Nearly 50,000 individuals, corporations and foundations contributed $81.5 million to UC Davis in 2005-06, supporting a variety of areas.
Recruitment
- Internship and Career Center
Free job and internship listings, interviews and career fairs for undergraduates, graduates and postdoctoral scholars - Graduate School of Management's career services for employers
- Cal Aggie Alumni Association's career resources for employers
Post jobs, view résumé postings and join our career resource network
Executive/corporate employees education
- Graduate School of Management
Offers several full- and part-time M.B.A. programs, five joint degree programs and the unique Wine Executive Program - UC Davis Extension
Offers cutting-edge professional programs and in-depth certificate programs - UC Davis Biotechnology Program's opportunities
Advanced degree for corporate employees and short courses
Doing business on campus
- Materiel Management: Purchasing and Business Contracts
- UC Davis Medical Center's Materiel Management Purchasing
- Architects and Engineers
- Facilities Operations and Maintenance Contract Services Office
- Real Estate Services