NMRC: Partnership with Industry - Overview & Strategy

Over the past eighteen years, NMRC has established a world-class reputation for advanced research and development and demonstrated an ability to anticipate and meet industry needs. NMRC plays a key role in the national research and development infrastructure, in serving companies in the ICT sector, both indigenous and multinational, in supporting the national agencies with responsibility for industrial development.

NMRC provides industry with access to world-class research, state-of-the-art R&D and training facilities and staff expertise. It also acts as a skills incubator providing many highly skilled engineers and scientists to industry through its extensive postgraduate training programmes.

NMRC offers its clients access to an independent R&D resource in which staff are focused in three distinct areas: advanced research looking 5 to 20 years ahead, applied research operating over a 2 to 5 year timeframe and technology services and training that address short-term needs and new product development. This R&D infrastructure provides a pipeline or conduit for ideas and concepts to be investigated at an advanced research phase and, when proven, to be passed to applied research for development of technologies or processes for transfer to industrial exploitation via technology licensing, joint ventures or through the establishment of high technology start-up companies.

Through its worldwide network of industrial contacts and its participation in international technology consortia and conferences, NMRC develops emerging perspectives on key technology-driven market trends and their potential impact on, and application to, future ICT related technology needs. The insights gained provide the basis for the formation of a vision of future technology requirements and hence to the directions and timing of the Centre’s research and development programmes.