Whether you are a tech scout, an entrepreneur, a researcher, a faculty member, or a business leader, you will find a comprehensive list of national lab innovations—all available to you for licensing or for open-source use—at your fingertips in the VIPS database. Search for technologies, discover their potential, and connect with licensing teams across the national labs to expedite their use for your success.

• IP that was once fragmented across multiple sites is now searchable in one place.
• Tech scouts can quickly find software and tech to augment or expedite their company’s offerings.
• Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists can visually and interactively examine IP offerings, review abstracts, and connect with commercialization representatives to assess market potential.
• Small business owners can investigate solutions for their tech and software needs.
• Opensource software users can seek out programs to utilize in their work and seamlessly connect to a download site.
• National labs can catalog and market their IP, fostering and expediting the commercialization process.
• Commercialization managers at participating national labs can follow up on direct inquiries from users of the tool.
• Users and national labs benefit from a solution that is fully automated, so the data remains current without continuous manual maintenance.

VIPS is fast and easy, and searching is free. Try your first search today at vips.pnnl.gov.