PARC creates technology platforms that enable new business opportunities or offer significant performance advantages over existing commercial alternatives. Our services cover the range from identifying customer needs and conducting exploratory research, to testing prototypes in the field and transferring technology.
New Business Germination — PARC helps establish both a technology platform and a team that will be the nucleus of a new business opportunity for our clients.
Technology Platform Creation and Integration — PARC’s experts from a variety of disciplines work closely with our clients’ teams to define, generate, and deploy novel technology platforms.
Opportunity Discovery and Assessment — PARC offers lightweight, consulting-style engagements that identify concrete opportunities to increase revenue or decrease operating costs, based on both technical and social insights.
Intellectual Property Licensing — PARC welcomes inquiries from companies that would like to enhance their intellectual property portfolios through licensing or acquiring patents from PARC's extensive portfolio.
Startup@PARC Program – PARC creates customized partnerships for selected ventures, providing access to high-end technical expertise and facilities resources such as office-lab space and operational support.
PARC participates in government research programs as both primary- and sub-contractor. Our work with industry partners has established a strong network of companies able to advance the output of such programs to commercially supported products.
Specialized services...
Several of PARC’s research programs have developed service offerings that allow us to connect advanced expertise to immediate, specialized needs.
Ethnography— Using insights gleaned from the systematic observation and analysis of people within their natural environments, ethnography catalyzes corporate innovation efforts. It helps companies identify and create new business opportunities; deliver superior products to customers; transform customer relationships; and/or understand the human processes within their own organizations. PARC also offers customized, introductory, "experience ethnography" workshops. More...
