The overall vision for the Industry Partnership Zone is to create a community where academia and industry intersect to create an innovative ecosystem bringing people and ideas together to advance research, technology commercialization, incubation and economic development.

UH is looking for key partners whose work overlaps with the program offerings in Sugar Land to leverage the intellectual capital available in the form of faculty and students. UH's Sugar Land campus is most focused on advanced manufacturing, logistics and supply chain, and biotechnology, but are open to adjacent sector partners as well. These partnerships would collaborate to offer internships, research collaborations and intellectual property leading to patent development.