Corporate Research Partner is the highest level of consortium sponsorship available at the Media Lab.

Benefits

• Membership in existing Lab consortia;
• The opportunity to establish a steering committee, comprising both sponsor and Lab representation, to oversee the sponsor’s relationship to the Media Lab;
• A special company/organization day at the Media Lab;
• An employee in residence at the Media Lab;
• Selection of two Lab graduate fellows, who will carry the sponsor’s name;
• Lab-wide visiting privileges;
• Invitations to Lab-wide lectures and special events;
• Non-exclusive access to intellectual property created at the Lab;
• After one year of membership, the option to negotiate a royalty-bearing license to intellectual property created prior to the sponsor’s period of participation, except where prohibited by existing agreements; and
• Access to publications (both print and digital); and access to insite, the Lab’s password-protected Web site for sponsors.