Industrial Partnerships Office
Lawrence Livermore's Industrial Partnerships Office (IPO), with its staff of scientists, engineers, attorneys, and entrepreneurs, is the conduit through which the Laboratory connects industry partners with Laboratory-developed technologies. In addition to technology licenses, the Laboratory offers several unique partnering arrangements, including work for others agreements and cooperative research and development agreement (CRADAs).
IPO currently has active commercial licenses with more than 100 companies, as well as dozens of active CRADAs. Licensing and royalty income in recent years has topped $8 million annually, representing more than $300 million in annual sales of products based on LLNL technologies. Livermore Laboratory-licensed technologies have enabled the launch of numerous new businesses that are helping drive economic growth locally, regionally, and beyond.
