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Our partners enjoy nationally recognized research, cutting-edge innovation, and collaborative Midwest hospitality. Purdue University created the Discovery Park District at Purdue for industry partners to thrive and meet their goals. Discovery Park District is a master plan community where forward-thinking companies, families and individuals come to live, work, learn, play and grow in a dynamic, interactive community focused on innovation. The District is over 400 acres, $1-billion-plus of purpose-driven community designed as a live, work, learn, and play micro-urban environment adjacent to the university's West Lafayette, Indiana campus.
The District Core surrounds the Discovery Park research complex and is the iconic heart and social hub of the innovation ecosystem, offering the widest mix of uses including: Innovation Spaces (co-working, office, lab, and maker); retail options; multiple housing options for employee attraction and retention; and abundant parking. Rolls Royce, Saab, and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories are the first of a growing set of companies locating in Discovery Park District.
The Purdue Research Foundation (PRF) supports Purdue University's land-grant mission to improve the world through its technologies and graduates. PRF moves ideas to the marketplace, patents and commercializes technologies, protects Purdue's intellectual property, and provides connections and placemaking opportunities for industry. PRF is building places of intention to encourage innovation, invention, investment, and entrepreneurship with Purdue resources and talent. The university and PRF are working with multiple microelectronic industry firms to form a technology cluster within the Discovery Park District at Purdue.
Purdue’s entrepreneurial culture, fostered by campus infrastructure such as the Purdue Research Foundation Foundry and the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, provides support and training that includes the largest university-affiliated business incubation complex in the country and the nation’s third longest-running business plan competition. With 175 utility patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2020, Purdue ranks #6 in the world for utility patents and #1 in the Big Ten conference. The IP Watchdog Institute report covering data from 2008 to 2018 ranked Purdue 3rd in the U.S. for startup creation. In 2020, the U.S. News & World Report named Purdue the 5th most innovative university in the U.S.