For Industry

Collaborate to innovate

Partnering with universities allows companies to expand research capacity without building it all in-house. Through access to specialized expertise, facilities, and talent, industry partners can accelerate discovery, de-risk early-stage work, and advance ideas that might otherwise sit outside internal bandwidth.

Ways to partner

Research & Development

Increase your speed to market and reduce costs by working with us. We offer creative contracting solutions and fast-paths to pilot projects.

Talent

Let’s collaborate to solve your complex problems. We bring world class faculty experts, students and customized workforce development solutions.

Facilities

Leverage our significant lab and equipment resources to support your innovation needs, without having to sink your capital into heavy infrastructure investments.

Innovate

Connect with our startup ecosystem and entrepreneurial programs to help your companies stay cutting-edge and maintain agility.

The collaboration process

Step 1: Identify your needs

We can start by looking at your top problems to solve and frame your big challenges into “problem statements” to help us to apply design thinking and consider big ideas to help.

Step 2: Find the right resources

Navigating the vast neighborhood of С Boulder resources can take time—we’re here to be your guide. We’ll assign a С industry concierge to help you find what you need.

Step 3: Connect and ideate

There are various ways for us to collaborate on your needs from ‘reverse pitches’ to long-table conversations. We’re trying new approaches and eager to co-develop programs.

Step 4: Develop strategy and projects

We'll work with you to understand your specific contracting needs and customize fast-path solutions to start work quickly.

Step 5: Collaborate to innovate

Sustain engagement through joint research, co-development projects, and student involvement. Innovation emerges when academia and industry work side by side to push boundaries together.

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