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Hp's Open Innovation Strategy: Leveraging Academic Labs
Funded with an HP Innovation Research Award, this chip, fabricated by Professor John Bowers and his team at the University of California, Santa Barbara, uses a new technique to integrate a 50-micron laser on a silicon photonics platform.
Hewlett-Packard Labs
Hewlett-Packard Labs launched the Innovation Research Program four years ago as part of its effort to embrace ideas and technologies that come from other sources, and to enable other researchers to adopt its technology. The program seeks proposals on 26 topics within the eight broad themes of HP Labs, including cloud computing, digital printing, and sustainability, and gives grants of $50,000 to $75,000 to university researchers.
Rich Friedrich, director of the Open Innovation Office at HP Labs, says the idea is to identify long-term goals and determine what it takes to reach them. HP researchers and grant recipients have co-authored about 200 journal papers, and at least 21 invention disclosures, the first step in securing a patent, have been filed. Grant winners must sign an agreement on sharing any intellectual property that results from the research.
Alan Willner, a grant winner and an electrical engineer at the University of Southern California, is working to improve signal processing in optical interconnects on computer chips. HP plans to double the performance of such interconnects by next year and increase it 20-fold by 2017.
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