Collaborative Research Initiatives

IBM has a strong tradition of research collaboration with our colleagues in academia. The goal of IBM's Collaborative Research Initiatives is to expedite these collaborations by diminishing barriers and reducing complexities caused by the implications of intellectual property ownership.

Making Collaboration Easier

Intellectual property trends indicate a need for different approaches and practices in information technology (IT) research collaboration between universities and industry.

To address these trends, IBM and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation sponsored a University and Industry Innovation Summit that was attended by leaders from IT companies, universities and government agencies, who continue to work together.

The participants of this summit include: Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The University of Texas at Austin, Cisco, HP, IBM and Intel. Additional collaborators include the Kauffman Foundation, National Science Foundation, the Office of U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman and the National Academies' Government University Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR).

Explore and Learn

We invite you to explore this site and learn more about collaborative research principles and the results of the Summit team's work. We want to share what we have learned to help your own teams start your research as quickly as possible, without unnecessary impediments. We welcome your participation as we continue to address barriers to university-industry collaborative research.