CU Boulder鈥檚 Industry & Foundation Relations (IFR) team is dedicated to building collaborative, mutually beneficial relationships with industry partners and foundations.
In January 2020, the Corporate and Foundation Relations team, the Office of Industry Collaboration and the industry and foundation-focused teams within the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the Leeds School of Business combined to form the IFR team, which reports jointly to聽Advancement聽and the聽Research & Innovation Office.
The streamlined IFR team is part of the university鈥檚 effort to deliver 鈥渁 partner-centric strategy and an on-campus support team that aligns financial investment in the research, discovery and creativity of Boulder鈥檚 faculty and students with satisfied corporate and foundation partners.鈥�
Visit the Industry & Foundation Relations聽website聽to learn more about how they can help you collaborate with local, state, national, and international industry and business partners.
If you plan to submit an industry proposal (i.e. the sponsor or funding agency is a private company), you will need to work with聽IFR. It is important to involve IFR as early as possible at proposal stage to help ensure that we are appropriately budgeting for the project and fulfilling any other special industry requirements. IFR聽may also help you negotiate favorable terms and conditions in an award agreement. You may聽contact IFR聽directly聽or your Proposal Analyst will contact聽on your behalf when notified of your proposal to a private sponsor.