
Project Olympus
Project Olympus at Carnegie Mellon University bridges the gap between world-class university research and economy-promoting commercialization. Olympus builds an infrastructure and fosters a culture that will enable talent and ideas to grow in the region by:
- Injecting an entrepreneurial culture into the university’s technology commercialization initiatives.
- Helping students and faculty explore the commercial potential of their research and ideas.
- Developing collaborations that exploit the expertise and resources of academia and the innovation development sector.
http://www.olympus.cs.cmu.edu/
The Robotics Institute
The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University was established in 1979 to conduct basic and applied research in robotics technologies relevant to industrial and societal tasks. Seeking to combine the practical and the theoretical, the Robotics Institute has diversified its efforts and approaches to robotics science while retaining its original goal of realizing the potential of the robotics field.
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/index.html
School of Design
The Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship recently created an alliance with Carnegie Mellon’s School of Design through its graduate entrepreneurship “Designing and Leading a Business” course. This course serves as the capstone course to a graduate student’s entrepreneurial studies at Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.design.cmu.edu/index.php
CyLab
CyLab is one of the largest university-based cybersecurity education and research centers in the U.S. CyLab's goal is to build mutually-beneficial public-private partnerships to develop new technologies for measurable, available, secure, trustworthy, and sustainable computing and communications systems and to educate individuals at all levels. CyLab provides technology resources and expertise in technology transfer to and from the public and private sectors.
http://www.cylab.cmu.edu/