Shipley Center for Innovation

Shipley Center for Innovation

Shipley Center for Innovation

Turning Your Business Idea Into a Reality

Do you have a great business idea? Enter the Shipley Center for Innovation, an entrepreneurial support hub where we help bring ideas to life.

Through a collaborative, hands-on process, the Shipley Center provides inventors and entrepreneurs with the resources and expertise needed to fully commercialize their products and launch successful new businesses.

What We Offer

Our services include:

  • Business formation
  • Customer development
  • Ignition grants
  • Incubator spaces
  • Investor connections
  • Marketing and branding
  • Networking
  • NYS tax incentives
  • Prototyping
  • Provisional patent filing
  • Workshops

Ready to get Started?

Schedule a 1:1 Office Hours support meeting with our team to discuss your business idea, ask questions, and get personalized guidance on your next steps.

Book a Meeting Now

Contact Us

Jamey Hoose, Director  
324A Bertrand H. Snell Hall  
Box 5790

Phone: 315-268-6690  
Fax: 315-268-3810  
Email: shipleycenter@clarkson.edu

Tell Us About Your Idea

Get Down to Business in the North Country's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

The North Country is home to a vibrant and growing entrepreneurial community. If you’re looking to connect with fellow entrepreneurs, share stories, celebrate successes, and work through business challenges together, the North Country Entrepreneurship Meetup offers a gateway into a supportive regional network. 
Through partnerships with local support organizations, this ongoing series of meetups brings together innovators, entrepreneurs, and business owner-operators from all seven North Country counties on a regular basis (monthly or bimonthly, depending on location). Join us to build connections, find inspiration, and soundboard your business ideas and challenges.

Find an Upcoming Meetup Near You!

Department Staff

Jamey Hoose

Jamey Hoose

Executive Director of the Shipley Center for Innovation, Technology Transfer

Email: jhoose@clarkson.edu
Office: 315/268-6690

About the Shipley Center

The Shipley Center was established through the generosity of Charles R. HD'84 and Lucia Shipley to promote student learning and development in leadership, teamwork and entrepreneurship. Since its inception, the center has served as a valuable community resource, fostering relationships between local businesses and nonprofits and assisting in the development of new ideas.

The Shipley Center continues to play an important role in startup culture across northern New York. Today, it serves as a primary hub for economic development, capitalizing on emerging technologies developed at Clarkson and throughout the region to create cutting-edge ventures for future solutions nationwide.

Focus Areas

Focus Areas

Focus Areas

Advancing Solutions to Global Challenges

Clarkson University is at the forefront of cutting-edge research, exploring new technologies and developing innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges. Through transdisciplinary collaborations and partnerships with industry leaders, Clarkson's research community endeavors to make a meaningful impact on society and create a better future for all.

We focus on research in four areas:

  • Advanced materials development.
  • Computational and data-enabled discovery.
  • Healthy global solutions. 
  • Next-generation medicine and healthcare.

Advanced Materials Development

Our innovations in tailored material design, synthesis and modeling, functional materials and devices, sensors and sensing systems, drug management and diagnostic tools and material sourcing and supply chains improve quality of life, accelerate technology performance and ensure sustainable management practices.

Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP)

Computational and Data-Enabled Discovery

Clarkson researchers cut across disciplines to understand the associations within complex multimodal data sets from countless sources and settings, ranging from modern sensor technologies to computational-rich engineering to social media analytics. Clarkson's strengths in dynamical systems lead to innovations learned from data, sensors and controls, business intelligence and financial technology and artificial intelligence.

Clarkson Center for Complex Systems Science (C3S2)

Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR)

Healthy Global Solutions

Clarkson's innovative research teams collaborate with the goal of reducing public health threats, ranging from environmental contamination to lack of medical care. We develop energy policies and technologies that lead to the creation of sustainable infrastructure, healthy waters, smart communities and secure societies.

NYS Center for Excellence in Healthy Water Solutions

Center for Air and Aquatic Resources Engineering and Sciences (CAARES)

Next-Generation Medicine and Healthcare

We engage in emerging approaches to innovative technologies for preventing, detecting and treating disease, including therapeutic strategies and approaches that change how we make economic, entrepreneurial, social and ethical decisions. Close affiliations with organizations like the renowned Trudeau Institute and Mount Sinai Hospital put Clarkson at the forefront to lead new healthcare innovation, management and access.

Center for Rehabilitation Engineering, Science and Technology (CREST)

Make An Impact

We welcome your curiosity — from the classroom to our research labs. Learn more about the research opportunities extended to our students and how you can get involved.