About PARC

Located in Silicon Valley, PARC, now part of SRI International, has been at the heart of some of the most important technological breakthroughs of our time.  Practicing open innovation, PARC provides custom R&D services, technology, intellectual property, and innovation best practices to Fortune 500 companies, startups, and government agencies. Organizations around the world value us for our scientific rigor, IP portfolio, commercialization capabilities, and comprehensive research facilities—resources found nowhere else in a single organization.

Creativity and science are core to PARC’s mission to reduce the time and risk attached to innovation.  We bring leading scientists, engineers and designers together to form teams across a series of Focus Areas that we believe are the future of technology, science and innovation.

The best minds, applied to the hardest problems

Our research staff includes some of the most talented, creative, and entrepreneurial Ph.D.- level scientists and engineers in the world – people with technical expertise, business sense, and drive.  Our team is comprised of physical, computational and social scientists, engineers, and business experts who are passionate and committed to addressing the most pressing issues of our time.  With disruptive innovations in technologies that bridge the physical and digital worlds such as  IoT sensing and analytics, digital manufacturing, climate tech,  AI and machine learning, intelligent assistants, cyber-physical security, biomedical instruments and more, PARC continues to invent the future.

The Business of Breakthroughs®

About SRI International 

SRI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute, headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, with a rich history of supporting government and industry. We create and deliver world-changing solutions for a safer, healthier, and more sustainable future. For more than 75 years, we have collaborated across technical and scientific disciplines to discover and develop ground-breaking products and technologies and bring innovations and ideas to the marketplace. Learn more at www.sri.com.