Rice University
Duncan Hall, Room 1070
6100 Main, Houston, TX 77005

The Houston Area Georgia Tech Club invites you to join us for a networking event and dinner with guest speaker

Dr. James Foley
Steven Fleming Chair in Telecommunications
Professor and Interim Dean, College of Computing

Topic: “The New Reality of Corporate Research and Development,and the Future of U.S. Competiveness”

Corporate R&D has changed dramatically in the past decades, especially but not only in the computing and communications industries.

The era of massive labs doing basic research, supported by companies with legislated or de-facto monopolies, is past. In some cases, the traditional long lead times between basic discovery and deployment and commercial success have shortened from many years to just a few years or even months.

In the New Reality, we find corporate R&D being out-sourced, crowd-sourced, tax-sourced, internationalized, customerized, and acquired.

In this new reality, companies look much more to universities for fundamental research, leading to an ever-greater interdependence between corporations, universities, and federal funding agencies. Many observers conclude that the future of U.S. competitiveness depends on how well this interdependence is recognized, managed and funded.

Time:
6:30 p.m.

To register, please RSVP via the link above. Because of the need to confirm headcount with the catering team, an RSVP “yes” is considered a financial commitment.

For more information, please email Tariq Delwar.