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...PARC seeks collaboration partners
Nancy Gohring, ComputerWorld/ InfoWorld, September 21, 2007
Excerpts from the article:
...SolFocus paid PARC for the space in the lab as well as resources such as Internet access. As they worked together, the two parties also distinguished between PARC intellectual property (IP), SolFocus IP and joint IP for revenue-sharing purposes. Throughout the collaboration, there wasn't any "tussling for advantage," Bernstein said. "We both want SolFocus to be successful and we share in their success," he said.
PARC had a similar but structurally different experience with another startup, Powerset Inc., a company working on a natural-language search engine...One of PARC's lead researchers ended up leaving the facility to become the chief technology officer of Powerset.
...The new program is called Startup@Parc, and interested partners can submit a collaboration proposal online. "What we're really looking for are unique ideas that have the potential to be really significant disruptive innovations in the world," he said. PARC will also be looking for people who "think big but in a grounded fashion and avoid those that represent a me-too offering," he said.
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