• Industry Sponsored Research Collaborations
    Successful industry research collaborations have strong alignment with the core academic and research strengths of the University. Strategic partnership specialists serve as the liaison between industry and Princeton researchers. Contact a strategic partnership specialist to discuss your ideas for collaboration.
  • Research With Princeton Portal
    Looking for a research collaborator at Princeton? Research with Princeton, can help identify Princeton researchers whose work may align with your research interests. The database also provides information about the University’s core scientific facilities that are available for external partners
David MacMillan

David MacMillan, 2021 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and Princeton’s James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry. Photo by Corinne Strauss

When you have these two tremendous research communities that exist side-by-side, it’s almost nonsensical not to build bridges between the two, taking what we are developing here and moving it towards really important applications.

—Professor David Macmillan, 2021 Nobel laureate in chemistry, on academic–industry collaboration

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Corporate Affiliate Programs

Corporate affiliate programs allow companies to have deep, substantive and ongoing dialog with Princeton faculty to explore research that may contribute to solving critical problems facing society and industry.

Micro/Nano Fabrication Laboratory Clean Room
Core Research Facilities

Princeton University offers top-of-the-line scientific research facilities that welcome external users. Each facility has its own fee structure and participation requirements. Training is available. 

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Support Fellowships

Graduate students and postdoctoral associates are essential to accelerating discoveries in academic research. Fellowships are synergistic—they provide a way for companies to directly interact with students and learn about their research. Students in turn gain important insight from technology leaders.

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Sponsor a Capstone Project

Capstone Projects are large, significant projects with real-world applications for upper-level undergraduate students. Partners can help to suggest and shape student Capstone Projects.

Connect across campus

Innovate with Technology

Princeton’s Office of Technology Licensing and New Ventures helps companies bring innovations from fundamental research to the world through licensing and technology transfers.

Promote Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is becoming integral to Princeton’s teaching and research mission. There are many opportunities for industry partners to engage with Princeton's rich range of entrepreneurship programming and activities through  the Office of Innovation, led by the Vice Dean for Innovation, the New Ventures team, the Keller Center in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the I-Corps Northeast Hub. 

Four students standing outside in a city with a sign with an icon for their company related to solar-powered water purification.

Credit: Princeton University, Office of Communications, Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy (2018)

Hire a Tiger

The next generation of leaders are students at Princeton today. The Center for Career Development and the Graduate School's GradFUTURES helps companies connect with students for internships and full-time employment.

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