
OPEN INNOVATION
HRL's Model for Open Innovation
HRL is making available corporate research and development services to select customers. Open Innovation customers collaborate with HRL to:
- Quickly demonstrate a technical concept by leveraging a mature R&D infrastructure (e.g. microfabrication, device design, test & analysis, high-performance computing) and professional staff from diverse engineering disciplines
- Leverage HRL expertise and explore the potential of new technologies before making internal investments
- Access HRL’s broad and deep core competencies to pursue specific business-relevant technical challenges
- Evaluate a broad range of technical options in the marketplace
Benefits include:
- Broad IP rights for our R&D customers, tailored to strategic and business needs, focused on enabling business end-goals
- Primary activities focused on developing foreground IP; Selective background IP licensing available as a means to accelerate technology transition from R&D to production
Expertise of highly skilled researchers with broad experience in facilities that include:
- Government and commercial contracts (prime and subcontractor)
- DoD/NSA Trusted Foundry
- 250,000 square-feet of lab space including a 10,000-square-foot Class 10 clean room
- Located on 72 acres in Malibu, California
For inquiries, contact innovation[at]hrl.com