Open Innovation Office

Leveraging HP’s world-class innovation network

HP Labs’ Open Innovation Office pursues and coordinates research collaborations with top researchers and entrepreneurs in academia, government and business around the world. It ensures joint research endeavors result in high-impact research that meets HP and its partners’ scientific and business objectives.

The office consists of a global team, bringing together expertise from around the world to foster discovery and address important issues; connecting the world’s leading researchers, scientists, and entrepreneurs through ground-breaking programs; and collaborating with them to tackle the next generation of breakthrough technologies.

An important program under this office is the HP Labs Innovation Research Program. This formal request for proposals (RFP) program offers universities worldwide the opportunity to participate in joint research with leading HP Labs scientists on a competitive basis. More information on the HP Labs Innovation Research Program is available here.

HP Labs actively seeks, develops, and performs research projects and programs in a range of future-facing technology areas that align with HP's strategic vision and goals. Our world-class research staff operate in cutting-edge facilities at seven world-wide locations to support this work. Current or potential customers for HP Labs research capabilities can find detailed information on research staff descriptions and pricing in the document linked here.

Open Innovation news & articles

»HP Announces 2009 Innovation Research Awards

June 15, 2009 – HP today announced that it has selected 59 professors from around the world to receive awards as part of its second annual HP Labs Innovation Research Program. 60 projects at 46 institutions in 12 countries were selected for 2009 Innovation Research Awards. Read the feature story. Learn more about the 2009 awardees here.

»First Open Cirrus Summit held at HP Labs Palo Alto

June 8, 2009 – HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. this week hosted the first ever Open Cirrus Summit on cloud computing at HP Labs headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. Over 100 attendees, including current and prospective members of the Open Cirrus™ global cloud computing research testbed, came together to share project progress, discuss new opportunities and further solidify research into all aspects of large-scale cloud systems. Read the feature story.

» Imagining the Future of Publishing

May 2009 - Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology's Open Publishing Lab, winner of a 2008 Innovation Research Award, will be showcasing their research at the upcoming Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival , to be held on May 2, 2009. The project team, led by Dr. Frank Cost, is working with HP Labs' Web Services and Systems Lab to develop innovative models of collaboratively publishing content over the web. Read more.

» HP-UNESCO ‘Brain Drain in Africa’ Project Expands to New Countries

March 2009 – HP, in partnership with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), launched a pilot project in 2006 called "Piloting Solutions for Reversing Brain Drain in Africa". Piloted in five African countries, the project used grid computing technology to develop and strengthen networks between experts working away from their own countries and university students at home. Due to the pilot program’s outstanding success, HP and UNESCO are continuing their collaboration to create the first university grid for Africa and the Middle East by connecting one hundred universities via grid technology by 2011. Read more about the new project in this discussion with HP Labs’ Arnaud Pierson.

» HP Russian Institute of Technology Gains Momentum

March 2009 – HP’s Russian Institute of Technology (RIT) program, launched in January 2008, has made significant progress in its first year. Not only has it helped Russia’s leading universities to develop unique IT education courses for more than 1,500 students but, with increased investment from HP, it has enabled HP Russia to clearly demonstrate good corporate citizenship to the world. Learn more about this program run by HP Labs Open Innovation Office in Russia.

» HP Labs joins the ACM 2009 Multimedia Grand Challenge

February 2, 2009 – HP Labs joins the ACM in issuing the ‘Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009’ – tasking the worldwide research community with helping create a better experience interacting with multimedia web content. Find more details about the HP challenge – titled “Robust Identification of Informative Multimedia Content in Web Pages” – posted at www.multimediagrandchallenge.com. Submissions are due June 15, 2009. Read more here.

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