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Making Connections. Awarding Innovation.
Significant investments in America and abroad in science and technology tell us American business executives are enthusiastic about innovation prospects globally.
"Innovation is perhaps the single most important factor in maintaining the U.S. competitive advantage in global markets and in driving a higher quality of life in the long-run, and it must be integrated at all levels into our corporate cultures."
--Deborah L. Wince-Smith, President of the Council on Competitiveness
Who will achieve the most, with and through the work of the Foundation?
Those who…
- Engage in evidence-based quality improvement.
- Seek broad-based and diverse input and contributions from the rapidly changing field of microelectronics and microelectronic packaging and its customers.
- Continuously and consistently define the purposes and value of IMAPS membership and program participation as part of their business growth and competitiveness strategies.
- Provide the bright minds in our research institutions with the tools and instruments needed to probe the frontiers of knowledge and develop ideas that can transom our understanding of the world.
- Maintain the financial and talent resources to be an effective agent for excellence in the critical, national enterprises of learning, discovery and innovation.
- Actively seek the new generation of philanthropists who are determined to create a framework for ensuring that the United States remains the competitive leader in the global economy. To reach that goal, there are a number of actions that the nation must take, and they include: Revitalizing fundamental research; Expanding our innovation talent pool; and, Reinforcing our leadership in the development and deployment of advanced technologies. The Foundation expects to adopt long-term strategies that focus on these goals.
Could it be you? Absolutely, if you consider yourself among…
- Microelectronics and Microelectronic Packing Industry Leaders
- Next-Generation Engineers
- Scientists
- Innovation-Focused Enterprises
Why Work with the Microelectronics Foundation?
Globalization links individual researchers, corporate research and national enterprises in diverse and increasingly complex ways. Mechanisms for transmitting ideas and technologies are more numerous and more nimble. Opportunities to discover, develop and capitalize on ideas are available to many more nations.
The work of the Foundation is not about manufacturing chips; rather, this is about innovation. Through projects defined and supported by the Foundation, we are defining new and innovate ways to meet increasing industry requirements with a new mix of the process capabilities of today.
You've found the right Foundation to work with if your business believes we must reinvigorate our educational enterprise to ensure that our researchers and workforce remain competitive on the global scale and that our citizens have the level of science literacy that in more essential in the 21st century.
Your company or foundation needs to work with us if you provide microelectronics industry leadership in defining, tracking and communicating the uniqueness and potential of microelectronics and microelectronic packaging companies and free agents/consultants.
With your support and contributions of time and talent, The Foundation can identify technology issues, players, papers and fund these as long-term or mid-size projects. In many areas the needs are well defined, such as the problem with heat when microelectronics packages operate at certain levels. The Foundation can convene the forum to address the problem-how to fix the heat problem. Today, there may be many companies replicating efforts, working on existing needs, and working in more than once place. The Foundation can grab an issue and work off the need identified in many places.
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