Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties established in 1985 as a university, non-profit, private corporation.

Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. was established in 1985 as a university affiliated, non-profit, private corporation.

VTIP handles, protects, and licenses technologies developed by the faculty, staff, and students at Virginia Tech.

These technologies include new varieties of plants, transgenic technologies, micro-electronics, fiber optics, wireless communications, coal technologies, software and more.