PARC works closely with other organizations – from leading global corporations and government agencies to newly formed ventures – to discover breakthrough concepts that deliver value and solve real needs.
By aligning our expertise with their strategic interests, our clients can:
strengthen innovation effectiveness;
extend scientific and technical capabilities;
anticipate and respond more quickly to emerging industry trends;
cultivate new market opportunities or business models; and
acquire intellectual property while maximizing existing assets.
Additionally, those who are involved in the PARC collaboration process gain insights into diverse innovation practices – bringing new thinking and seeding future innovation back into their own organizations.
Founded in 1970 as part of Xerox Research and chartered to create “the architecture of information”, PARC was incorporated in 2002 as an independent research business. PARC has contributed to the creation of more than 30 companies and is celebrated for such innovations as laser printing, distributed computing and Ethernet, the graphical user interface (GUI), object-oriented programming, and ubiquitous computing. PARC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox Corporation.
PARC employs ~170 researchers from the physical, computer, biological, and social sciences (80% of whom hold doctoral degrees), and ~60 operational and business staff members.
Our employees come from 46 different countries, and include native speakers of virtually every major language. This diversity contributes to an environment in which collaboration is multi-dimensional, cutting across cultures, laboratories, and scientific disciplines.
PARC is based in Silicon Valley, along with the headquarters of major enterprises, universities, research/ design centers, and Sand Hill Road with its concentration of VC firms.
