WEST LAFAYETTE — Purdue and GE have entered into a university-industry partnership that exemplifies a new approach to expediting the academia-based technology commercialization process.

The agreement, signed this month, will merge the expertise of GE's corporate technology commercialization group with innovations being developed at Purdue to commercialize new technologies.

Purdue innovations under consideration for development through the partnership include enhanced medical diagnostic imaging, advanced propulsion technologies, solar technologies, energy recovery technologies and new biological testing technologies.