Reason #4 - You prefer to work in a team

Another reason to work in the Venture Development Center:

From the moment you step through our doors, you'll know that this is not business as usual.

We vanquished the solo investigator lab, substituting open labs. We shrank offices to the minimum, substituting work pods for teams. (To underscore the point, we even included two stand-up private offices.) And we provided lots of places where researchers can congregate outside their labs or offices to talk with one another, exchange ideas and write-up results.

Why did we do this? Because modern research and development is an intensely social activity. So the VDC’s designers delivered a program that facilitates interaction, flexibility and sharing.

The program supports research clusters, designed to enable scholars to better exchange ideas and explore emerging research areas and to work more effectively with industry, other research organizations and the community. We've learned that collaboration creates synergy, excitement, and creativity. Besides, we hear from students that employers want graduates who are prepared to meet the multidisciplinary needs of the world, integrating what they have learned in disparate fields.

We really pushed the concept. As networks connect people and organizations, sharing data within a team and with other research teams becomes key. Our technology enables you to include your colleagues scattered around town or the world, even in the labs.