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State Innovation Profile

Arizona

Phoenix's semiconductor manufacturing and Tempe's solar energy research make Arizona a Southwest innovation hub.

2
Universities
~1,389
Available Technologies
$2.0B
R&D Spending (NSF, FY2024)
270
US Patents Granted (Latest Year)

2 Arizona Universities

30 startups in the latest year (2 reporting)

Tucson, Arizona

The University of Arizona is a public land-grant research university in Tucson with over $1 billion in annual research, internationally recognized in optical sciences, space and planetary science, and biomedicine.

Life SciencesOptics & PhotonicsEngineering & Physical SciencesSoftware & IT
85
US Patents
$1.0B
R&D

Tempe, Arizona

ASU is a major public research university with strong commercialization in solar energy, semiconductor manufacturing, and sustainability.

Solar EnergySemiconductorsSustainabilityBiomedical
185
US Patents
$1.0B
R&D

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