Calit2 works with industry partners from start-up to large companies
in a variety of industry niches. Calit2 customizes the partnership with each
company; the ideas below are representative arrangements.
With respect to research, partners typically pose longer-term research problems
that they don’t have the resources to address in house. Calit2 identifies
the necessary expertise across the range of disciplines involved in the institute,
forms a team that typically includes industrial representatives themselves, and
applies that team to the problem. Faculty working in Calit2 focus on solving
complex problems with integrated systems, an approach that tends to address
industry’s needs in a meaningful way.
Partnerships with Calit2 also enable industry to learn how students are using
and developing technologies to identify emerging markets; prototype and test precommercial
products and systems in the real-world settings of the two campuses;
evaluate the possibility of teaming with other Calit2 partners on joint product
lines; and evaluate students for summer internships and career employment.
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