Building a delivery-oriented system
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Last year at Flex, PARC CEO Mark Bernstein talked about the importance of building an ecosystem when working in emerging technologies such as flexible and printed electronics [this slideshow is available in our channel here]. But let's admit this: flexible electronics is not an emerging market -- it's an enabling technology. The market includes supply-chain logistics, medical devices, photovoltaics, lighting, structural health monitoring, consumer packaged goods, toys and games, etc. Each of these has different technical demands, distribution and support requirements, and adoption challenges. So how do companies and organizations that have such enabling or emerging technologies, competencies, and/or customers identify and address their potential markets? Especially when balancing the need to choose the right markets to focus on, while remaining flexible (no pun intended!) enough to change as market conditions dictate? While PARC has had a legacy of creating foundational research and evolving its competencies in this arena, we are now focused on "building an ecosystem" for flexible and printed electronics. In short, we're implementing -- not just describing -- how to fulfill the promise of the vision outlined last year. Because simply having expertise and demonstrating feasibility alone do NOT a commercial reality make. We have to work together to "seize the white spaces" between technology opportunity, business opportunity, and market reality. And the dialogue between those that understand what's needed -- and those that understand what's possible -- will enable new opportunities neither of us could have come up with alone.
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Editor's Notes
- For more than 40 years, PARC has been helping companies and organizations like yours turn great ideas into new revenue streams. (we used to Xerox PARC but became an independent subsidiary in 2002; PARC is the home of the Ethernet, laser printing, graphical user interface, client-server architectures, object-oriented programming, multilingual computing, ubiquitous computing, and moreWe help bring groundbreaking new technologies to market by applying the knowledge and experience of the best minds in the business to each client engagement. We seed and support innovation, and we’ve authored over 2,100 patents – now, we’re averaging 100 per year.Our diverse experience includes launching more than 30 new companies, and we partner with leading companies, organizations, and government agencies around the world.We have licensing and co-development agreements, and an international network of corporate partners, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, government agency partners, and university collaborators.We’re focused on innovation – and helping our clients bring innovation to market in a way that reduces risk and creates new revenue streams.