Corporate Sponsorship

The Lab’s primary source of funding comes from more than 60 corporate sponsors whose businesses range from electronics to entertainment, furniture to finance, and toys to telecommunications. Sponsorship provides a unique opportunity for corporations to have access to a valuable resource for conducting research that is too costly or too “far out” to be accommodated within a corporate environment. It is also an opportunity for corporations to bring their business challenges and concerns to the Lab to see the solutions our researchers present.

Membership Levels

CONSORTIUM RESEARCH SPONSOR
This level of sponsorship provides all the benefits of consortium sponsorship (see below) with the added benefit of an employee-in-residence at the Lab.

CONSORTIUM SPONSOR
The most frequently selected option, a consortium sponsorship connects a company with a group of other sponsors and Lab faculty and research staff focused on a common agenda. These sponsors have access to all of the research conducted at the Lab, Lab-wide visiting privileges, invitations to semi-annual sponsor-only forums, and full intellectual property rights.

GRADUATE FELLOWS
Sponsorship of a fellow is an opportunity for a sponsor to work closely with a principal investigator and a graduate student in a specific area of focus to better understand the research being conducted at the Lab. Student fellows can carry the sponsor’s name, and can rotate annually.