How does a corporation become a TRUST partner?
The TRUST corporate partners are listed on the
Industry Partners page.
Corporate partnerships with the TRUST Center are
available at different levels as outlined below.
| Affiliate |
Not less than $75,000 per year |
Affiliate membership includes the following benefits:
- Invitation to periodic reviews of TRUST.
- Access to selected internal TRUST websites.
- Access to publications, reports and presentations by TRUST researchers.
- Access to students and faculty in TRUST.
- An annual research report of the activities of TRUST.
- Advance notice of intellectual property created by TRUST.
- Intellectual property access as defined in the agreement.
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| Small or Minority-Owned Business |
Not less than $10,000 per year |
All of the benefits of an Affiliate |
| Partner |
Not less than $150,000 per year |
All of the benefits of an Affiliate, plus the following:
- Opportunity to nominate a member of the Industrial
Advisory Board of TRUST on an annual basis.
- Opportunity to place visitors, as Visiting Industrial
Fellows (VIF), at the University using the process identified in
section I. VIF appointments are subject to standard University of
California policies; see section I of the Trust Membership Agreement
for further information.
- Company may request VIF status for additional people, and
TRUST will review and provide approval conditions.
- Selected early access to software developed by
TRUST. When possible, and for software projects within TRUST that use
networked version control systems (such as CVS) for collaborative
software development, early access to pre-release development versions
of the software is available.
- Intellectual property access as defined in the
agreement.
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| Premium Partner |
Not less than $300,000 per year |
All of the benefits of a Partner, plus the following:
- Intellectual property access as defined in the agreement.
- No more frequently than once per year, if requested by
the company a private research review meeting at the University or at
a mutually agreeable site. Travel and related expenses for the
participants, if any, will be covered by the individual Premium Partner.
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If your corporation is interested in joining TRUST, please contact Larry Rohrbough (larryr (at) eecs dot berkeley dot edu), the TRUST Executive Director.
