Industry Engagement

Member Engagement Options

The Bits & Watts Affiliate Program allows a broad engagement with the initiative as a whole via an industry consortium model, in which companies gain facilitated engagement with Stanford faculty and students and connect with other interested companies in shared research-related programming such as annual symposia and focused workshops. Companies join by paying an annual affiliate membership fee. Affiliate-funded research is open to all members of the program and does not include IP terms. The site presentations and all information, data and results arising from such visitation interactions will be shared with all members and the public.
For more details about Stanford's Policy for Affiliate Programs, refer to the university's Research Policy Handbook.

The Bits & Watts Affiliate Program offers companies and institutions the following benefits, which vary depending upon membership level:

Opportunity	Elite member $250,000/year	Member $100,000/year	Small Business $25,000/year
Recognition on the Precourt Institute for Energy and Bits & Watts Initiative websites	X	X	X
Invitations to Bits & Watts Initiative events (for up to 5 invitees)	X	X	X
Facilitated engagement with Bits & Watts Initiative research results	X	X	X
Invitations to Precourt Institute for Energy events (for up to 5 invitees)	X	X	X
Facilitated engagement with Stanford faculty and students	X	X
Hosting one industry Visiting Scholar at Stanford: Term residencies at Stanford for industrial researchers that promote in-depth interaction between academic researchers and professionals in the field (in accordance with Stanford’s Visiting Scholar policies)	X

Industry Contact: Dr. Liang Min, Bits & Watts Managing Director: liangmin@stanford.edu, (650) 498-4837