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Out of curiosity, what other well known corporate R&D / internal incubators exist out there?
by sgtsugarfingers 15y ago
Out of curiosity, what other well known corporate R&D / internal incubators exist out there?
- mirkules 15y agoBell Labs immediately comes to mind.
- adestefan 15y agoThey've changed hands so many times between AT&T, Lucent, Alcatel and Alcatel-Lucent that they're long gone. I think Alcatel-Lucent said they were basically disbanding the sliver of Bell Labs that was left around the 2007 time frame.
- bane 15y agoStill in the news area, some of the larger newspapers keep dedicated infoviz and digital media departments. They report news, but in ways that just aren't possible with a newspaper, and don't involved tables and tables of columns.
- eichin 15y agoIn Cambridge, MA alone we have Nokia Research Center (NRC), Microsoft NERD (no really, New England Research and Development Center, but they've dropped the C in the last year or two :-) Disney Research... up until a couple of years back we had Orange/France Telecom, too. (BITD there was a "$foo Cambridge Research Labs" for most computer/tech values of $foo; these days all the new buildings, and a lot of the old, are biotech instead.)
- troymc 15y agoLockheed's Skunk Works comes to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works Google has its so-called X Lab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_X_Lab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_X_Lab Xerox PARC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC If you want to read a great page-turner history of PARC, check out Michael Hiltzik's book: Dealers of Lightning. One of his conclusions is that the laser printer alone paid for PARC several times over.
- jannes 15y agoMaybe not particularly well known: Walmart Labs: http://www.walmartlabs.com/ http://www.walmartlabs.com/ New York Times Labs: http://nytlabs.com/ http://nytlabs.com/