Information for Business and Industry

A key part of Rutgers' mission is to serve the people of New Jersey. That includes service to you at your workplace. Please avail yourself of the information, resources, and support we offer. After all, it’s our business to serve your business.

Find resources to help you

explore research avenues;
turn discoveries into viable services and products;
develop, test, and refine ideas;
craft innovative solutions;
find top-notch employees;
train personnel;
gain insight into key markets.

Urban Entrepreneurship Summit

The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development at Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, together with the White House, hosted the first ever Urban Entrepreneurship Summit bringing together entrepreneurs, private capital, government, and the academic resources of Rutgers Business School.

The summit sought ways to build strong businesses in American cities by transferring business know-how to people trying to make their businesses succeed. Learn more.

Recruit

Need top-notch workers? Rutgers ranks #21 in the Wall Street Journal’s Top Recruiter Picks.

“Rutgers students are well prepared. They collaborate, have a great work ethic, and have an open mind for diversity, and not just diversity of people, but of thought, and culture as well. They are flexible and tend to take on leadership roles when working in teams.”—Prudential Financial on hiring Rutgers graduates

Recruiting Overview

Winning Recipe

The Food Innovation Center offers entrepreneurial cooks everything from packaging advice to a state-of-the-art production facilities.

In a recent New York Times article, "Call Rutgers" was the advice of client and pasta sauce maker Michele Visceglia when asked how to start a business. Learn more.

Where to Start

Rutgers is a big, complex place that offers many resources for businesses. Want to explore what Rutgers offers but not sure where to start? Begin by contacting the Office of Research Alliances. The office serves as navigator, guide, and central point of contact for exciting areas of expertise, scientific development, and support at Rutgers.

Get Your Business off the Ground

Get ideas off the ground and bring solutions to market. Key centers and programs can help you from the outset.

New Jersey Small Business Development Centers

Centers throughout the state offer management consulting and training programs to nascent entrepreneurs, startups, and existing small businesses.

The statewide office, headquartered at Rutgers–Newark, serves all 21 New Jersey counties through regional centers and affiliate offices including the Small Business Development Center at Rutgers–Newark and the Small Business Development Center at Rutgers–Camden.
Rutgers–Camden Tech Business Incubator

Rutgers Camden Technology Campus, Inc. is a mixed-use business incubator that helps new businesses thrive in Camden. The incubator averages more than 30 client companies with a total of about 220 employees.
Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development

The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development promotes and fosters urban entrepreneurs who actively seek socially conscious urban renaissance.
Rutgers Food Innovation Center

For those in the food industry, the Rutgers Food Innovation Center's mentoring program assesses each client’s needs and recommends a scope of work for achieving its business goals.
Center for Advanced Food Technology

The Center for Advanced Food Technology works with entrepreneurs as well as large global companies to help bring their product concepts to fruition.
EcoComplex Environmental Incubator

The EcoComplex Environmental Incubator provides advice and assistance to "green business" entrepreneurs.

Grow Your Business

Capitalize on early momentum and keep your business running smoothly. Take part in symposiums, forums, and other networking opportunities. Gain access to capital, legal help, and accountancy. Sponsor basic and applied research—and reap the financial rewards.

Research and Development
Optimize your company’s R&D when you tap our top-notch people and New Jersey’s most extensive network of specialized research laboratories and facilities. Take advantage of effective basic and applied research and consulting services, low transaction costs, and rapid turnaround. Get started with these resources.
Center and Laboratory Industrial Memberships
Companies with advisory, member, or sponsor relationships with our research centers benefit from a shared pool of data, access to specialized R&D equipment and labs at competitive rates, visiting scientist options, and collaboration with faculty and student experts. Below is a sampling of Rutgers centers with such relationships. Learn more here.
Rutgers Technology You Can Take to Market
Rutgers is an economic engine, creating exciting inventions that the private sector can license and market to improve life in many areas. Established firms and startups alike partner with Rutgers to build new businesses. Explore technologies in biomedicine, IT, engineering, and agriculture that Rutgers has available for technology transfer.
Business and Management Centers
Explore these programs for insights, analysis, and emerging trends.

Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Green Business

The Rutgers–New Brunswick-based New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) has information, research, workshops, and experts to keep agricultural and marine businesses on top economically and attuned environmentally.

NJAES Centers, Institutes, and Off-Campus Stations
From the Center for Turfgrass Science’s nationally renowned development of commercial grasses to the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory’s concentration on shellfish species that are commercially important to New Jersey, NJAES centers, institutes, and off-campus stations help businesses make decisions based on objective data, sound science, and environmental sensitivity.
- Learn More about New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Centers, Institutes, and Off-Campus Stations
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Services

A Prepared Workforce

One of Rutgers most essential services is providing the educated workforce that New Jersey and the nation need to stay ahead. We are your ready source for worker training, interns, trained employees, and faculty consultants.

Continuing Education
From customized courses offered at your place of business to prep courses for professional licensure to certificate and degree programs offered at the Rutgers Campus, online, and at satellite sites, Continuing Education gives your employees—and your organization—the competitive advantage.
Career Services
Connect with Rutgers career offices to find ready-to-hit-the-ground-running students and alumni who can fill essential roles in your organization. Meet candidates face-to-face at our job events; post your internship, co-op, or job openings; or peruse our résumé database.
Undergraduate and Graduate Education
More than 58,000 full- and part-time undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled at Rutgers, studying everything from nanotechnology and pharmaceutics to writing and statistics.
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Get Market and Economic Insight

Top minds identify trends and research market conditions. You reap the benefits.

Workforce Development and Trends
Our labor and workforce schools, centers, and institutes provide business and industry with empirically based studies of workforce, labor, and management trends and issues.
A Go-to Resource for Objective Economic Analysis
Rutgers produces New Jersey’s most highly regarded objective research reports on the state of the regional and national economy—vital information for business decision-makers.

At the Intersection of Business and Public Policy

Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy provides education, research, and community outreach in many areas where the public and private sectors intersect.

Faculty have expertise in land use, political processes, public health, employment and social policy, human services, transportation policy and planning, housing and real estate, urban redevelopment, and regional development and planning.

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