Industry/university teaming for display research

In an effort to raise the efficiency and speedup the rate of technology transfer from its university funded research programs, DARPA has been encouraging the formation of industry/university teams to accelerate the development of backplane thin-film electronics for AMLCD displays. The effort among its university researchers has been carried forward through voluntary participation in a series of workshops cosponsored by DARPA and the Electric Power Research Institute. Evidence of the effectiveness of the teaming arrangement is shown by the many collaborations entered by the display industry participants.