 HP Labs’ Open Innovation Office pursues and coordinates research collaborations with top researchers and entrepreneurs in academia, government and business around the world. It will ensure joint research endeavors result in high-impact research that meets HP and its customers’ scientific and business objectives.
The office consists of a global team whose mission is to leverage the strength of HP’s world-class innovation network to discover and nurture new opportunities and advanced thinking to improve business and life.
The team seeks to bring together expertise from around the world to foster discovery and address important issues; connect the world’s leading researchers, scientists, and entrepreneurs; and collaborate with them to tackle the next generation of breakthrough technologies.
An important new program under this office is the HP Labs Innovation Research Program. This formal request for proposals (RFP) program will offer universities worldwide the opportunity to participate in joint research with leading HP Labs scientists on a competitive basis.
Details about the program are available here. Research topics will be announced on 7 May 2008.
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