Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

Palo Alto Research Center is a research and development company that discovers, tests, and delivers new ideas and business opportunities.

Palo Alto Research Center is a research and development company that discovers, tests, and delivers new ideas and business opportunities in the United States. It provides custom research and development services, technology, expertise, best practices, and intellectual property to Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, startups, and government agencies and partners, focusing on the areas such as innovation, content-centric networking, printed and flexible electronics, optoelectronics and optics, cleantech and energy, big data, contextual intelligence, design and digital manufacturing, prototyping, and more. Since its inception in 1970 as a division of Xerox Corporation, PARC has pioneered many technology platforms that range from Ethernet and laser printing to the GUI and ubiquitous computing, and has enabled the creation of many industries. Incorporated as an independent, wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox in 2002, PARC today continues the physical, computer, and social sciences research that enable breakthroughs for our clients' businesses.