University of Arizona Center for Innovation to serve as liaison to support clean energy innovators The program helps them to translate innovations into marketable technologies, develop a business plan, identify target markets, refine their prototype, prepare pitch presentations, secure investment, successfully launch into the market and much more. (Source: University of Arizona) By Shelby Trahan | January 21, 2021 at 11:45 AM MST - Updated January 21 at 11:45 AM TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - The University of Arizona Center for Innovation will continue supporting the Department of Energy’s American-Made Challenges. The center was awarded an additional three-year contract from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. In May 2020, UACI was selected to be one of only six Power Connectors across the nation, to collaborate in the $3 million prize competition designed to revitalize U.S. solar manufacturing.