Private Business Partners
Referred to as the Industrial Partners program when it began in 1986, NCSA's collaboration with major corporations ensured that its expertise and emerging technologies would be relevant to major challenges outside of the academic world, as those challenges arose. Business partners had no control over research or the disposition of its results, but they were well-situated to be early adopters of any benefits of the research. The program is now called the Private Sector Program.
Past and current business partners include:
- Abaqus
- ACNielsen
- Allstate Insurance
- American Airlines
- AT&T Inc.
- Boeing Phantom Works
- Caterpillar Inc.
- Dell Inc.
- Dow Chemical
- Eastman Kodak
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Exxon Mobil
- FMC Corporation
- Ford
- IBM
- Innerlink
- John Deere
- JPMorgan Chase
- Kellogg
- McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing)
- Motorola
- Phillips Petroleum Company
- Schlumberger
- Sears, Roebuck and Company
- Shell Oil
- State Farm
- Tribune Company
- United Technologies
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