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PARC is transforming the ways in which organizations can capture business value from research innovation. Our proven, interdisciplinary approach helps our clients create business opportunities, extend capabilities or competitive advantage, and respond to emerging trends.
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Gaining traction with real problems . . . and discovering opportunities for technology innovation through ethnographic and user-centered research
To thrive in today's economy, companies must understand their customers and human-organizational processes
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Enabling clients to reduce research, invention, and development costs and time-to-market
Enabling fabrication of micro-devices on large and/or sensitive substrates
 
Integrating optical design, modeling, prototyping, and testing expertise for a wide range of applications
Solving optoelectronics challenges, from materials to device performance optimization
Novel functionality and reduced manufacturing cost through all-printed TFT arrays, printed pattern a-Si devices, and device design
Better ways to deposit and pattern unconventional materials
Novel materials and device processing, a-Si, LTPS, organic semiconductors and semiconducting oxides
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Simplifying the complexity of our social, device, and information networks
Using Web 2.0 social software to enhance collaboration and social cognition
Systems that help people interact with vast information, with new devices, and with each other
Designing systems that augment the human capacity to combine information from many sources and make informed decisions
 
Technology development and technical consulting for usable security & privacy
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Detecting rare cells for predicting cancer treatment and prenatal diagnostics
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Continuous-flow clarification: a novel approach to enhancing water quality and harvesting suspensions
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