The extensive
resources available to Technology Park tenants include:
- Right-sized,
affordable facilities and market-rate leasing costs
- Opportunities
to collaborate with world-class Cal Poly faculty, who
have a strong focus on applied research and an interest in
collaborating with industry
- Relationship
manager to help identify highly qualified student part-time and temporary workers,
interns and future employees
- Access to a
network of local business professionals to assist companies
in locating investors, financing and business services and
basic business functions such as accounting, and human
resources.
- Shared
support facilities (conferencing)
- Access to
campus services (fee based) for IT support, graphic
design, copy and printing, web design
and hosting, and catering.
- Access to usability test facilities, rapid prototyping
laboratories and other university resources (fee based).
Access to
specialized university facilities will benefit companies in
several industries:
- Companies
who need to perform rapid prototyping or design for
manufacturability can take advantage of Cal Poly resources
such as the
Guidant
Rapid Prototyping Laboratory.
- Companies
developing Java-based applications can make use of the Cal
Poly Java Center Projects Lab, established by a cooperative
effort between Cal Poly and Sun Microsystems. In addition to
supporting courses in Java programming, the lab provides
support for student and faculty projects.
- Companies
conducting research in networking can leverage the Cisco
Network Lab, a $1 million joint effort by Cisco Systems
and Intel Corporation.
The university
will not claim rights to intellectual property developed by a
company in the technology park. If a company in the park chooses
to enter into a contractual relationship with the university,
under which faculty carry out research for the company in the
university, the university's intellectual
property policy would apply to any IP developed through that
contract.
Yes. The
university will require a commitment from the companies in the
technology park to develop ties with specific
departments/colleges. The nature of this relationship may vary
depending on the company.
Initially, the
technology park will set up offices for small businesses, but
will not operate an incubator facility. Plans for an incubator
facility will be considered after the park is in operation.
- High-speed
Internet access that is typically only found in large
metropolitan areas
- Potential
remote access (based on appropriate use conformance) to
mainframes, electron microscopes and other resources at all
major universities
Universities are
eligible for federal and state grants and contracts not
available to the private sector. Often, private companies can
partner with the university on these projects. In addition, many
federal programs are specifically designed to assist small
businesses in developing new technologies or to encourage
partnerships between universities and private industry.
The technology
park is expected to attract companies from several industry
sectors. Cal Poly’s strengths in certain technologies,
combined with the availability of resources offered by the
university and the technology park, are expected to draw tenants
from the following industry areas:
- Advanced
materials, polymers and coatings
- Aerospace
technologies
- Agricultural
and environmental biotechnology
- Computer and
software engineering
- E-learning
software and e-business applications
- GIS
applications in agriculture and biology
- Nano- and
micro-technology
- Rapid
prototyping
- Telecommunications
and photonics technologies
- Transportation
engineering
The technology
park will begin with a building of 25,000
square feet, with 20,000 square feet of gross leaseable space of which an individual company could lease
any amount of space desired (e.g. a small office, an entire
floor, the entire building). Feasibility for future buildings
will be considered after the pilot building has been proven
successful.
Initial occupancy
is expected in Spring 2010.
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