Industry
Access Our Industry Network
The Auster Center facilitates research collaborations connecting your expertise with industry challenges—providing additional funding, validation opportunities, and deployment pathways.
Our industry network includes technology companies seeking university research collaborations, manufacturing collaborators for prototype development and scale-up, and corporate innovation hubs throughout Greater Boston's innovation ecosystem.
Industry-Sponsored Research
Collaborate with companies on technical challenges while advancing your research program. Industry-sponsored research provides:
Additional Funding: Support for research programs beyond traditional grants
Real-World Validation: Test your innovations against actual industry challenges and requirements
Student Opportunities: Hands-on experience for students working on industry-relevant problems
Commercialization Pathways: Potential routes to technology licensing, manufacturing collaborations, or deployment
Technology Licensing and Transfer
Companies seeking to license university-developed technologies for commercialization. We facilitate connections, support negotiations, and help structure agreements that benefit both researchers and industry collaborators.
Manufacturing and Scale-Up Collaborators
Connect with manufacturing collaborators who can help move prototypes to production-ready technologies and support scale-up for deployment.
How We Facilitate Industry Connections
Network Access
Connect with our portfolio of industry collaborators across sectors including semiconductor manufacturing, materials science, defense technology, and life sciences.
Agreement Support
Guidance on collaboration structures, intellectual property considerations, and collaboration frameworks.
Entegris
Turning Unused Data Into Development Insights
Entegris, a leading supplier of advanced materials and process solutions for the semiconductor, life sciences, and other high-tech industries, needed to transform unused experimental data into actionable insights that could improve new product development efforts.
Tufts Gordon Institute (TGI)'s Auster Center brought together the essential elements: Entegris engineers who understood their experimental designs, faculty research leadership from Abani Patra (Director, Tufts Data Intensive Studies Center), and graduate students working hands-on with industrial-scale data.
This collaboration created value for all stakeholders:
The Tufts Data Intensive Studies Center gained insight into the front-line challenges of today’s semiconductor industry.
Entegris gained actionable insights for improving data analysis and design of experiments. Data that had been collected became a strategic asset for their global new product development process.
Students gained hands-on experience with industrial data challenges at a global company—the kind of project that leads to internships and post-graduation employment.
TGI demonstrated a collaboration model where companies bring real challenges, faculty bring expertise, and students gain career-launching experience. Everyone benefits and drives impact.
