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.

Open Innovation news & articles

» HP Labs hosts Sustainability Innovation Workshop

October 20, 2008 – Representatives from academia, industry and government recently gathered at HP Labs facilities in Palo Alto, California at a workshop designed to promote collaborative research in the area of sustainability within, and resulting from, the IT industry. Learn more about the workshop goals and view presentations from each of the sessions here.

» HP Innovate ’09 competition announced by HP India

Students in India are invited to participate in HP Innovate ’09, an annual event organized by HP India to award innovative minds in the Indian student community. Themes, deadlines and detailed contest information is available at the HP Innovate '09 site. Abstracts are due by January 5^th 2009!

» Winners of HP Innovate student competition visit HP Labs Palo Alto

Members of the HP Innovate 2008 Winning Team from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur visited HP Labs Palo Alto after taking first place at the HP Innovate 2008 Grand Finals held at HP Bangalore, India. Click here to hear about their visit, and read more about the top projects submitted. The HP Innovate competition, an annual event run by HP India, is designed to recognize and reward outstanding creative ideas submitted by young engineering graduates in India. Learn more about HP Innovate.

» HP Labs innovation research awards announced

HP has announced the 41 professors it has selected to receive its 2008 HP Labs Innovation Research Awards, which fund strategic joint research projects between academic research institutions worldwide and HP Labs, the company’s central research arm. View the complete list of award winners here, and read in-depth coverage on the awards on the Labs Blog.

» Global cloud computing research testbed

HP, Intel and Yahoo! have created a global, multi-data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education. Learn more about this program here.

» Sponsored research interaction process

HP’s OIO team has worked with the Northern California Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium (BASIC) over the past several years to address intellectual property issues hindering research collaborations between industry and universities. Learn more about an important outcome of this work, the Sponsored Research Interaction Process (SRIP) here.