Academic Alliances

TCS believes in investing in research to help build new innovative solutions and increase the overall Intellectual Capital base.  With this focus, TCS has established academic alliances and R & D collaboration with institutes globally. These alliances become important in research contexts that require a long term time frame and a space protected from business pressures.  For universities they promise student and faculty exposure to real-world problems.

The TCS-university collaborations go well beyond the traditional research relationships.. They are a highly interactive collaboration encouraging a continuous flow of ideas between academia and TCS that enriches our innovation landscape.

The Academic Alliance program has clear Goals, and has Advantages for both universities and TCS. We adopt a transparent Process, and encourage several Models Of Collaboration.

We have Academic Alliances in Asia and in North America. Some fruitful and recently concluded projects include European universities as well.

The Goals

The goals of TCS academic alliances are to:

• Support High Quality Research
• Impact Sustaining Innovation
• Have a Long term impact on Disruptive Innovation
• Provide Internship Opportunities especially for doctoral students
• Facilitate Knowledge Exchange & People Development
• Develop an Innovation Partner Ecosystem
• Encourage collaboration amongst academic partners through support for centers of Innovation

The Advantages

There are perceived advantages to both the University and TCS through such collaboration. 

For Universities:

• Understanding the complexities of real-world data and situations
• Ability to conceptualize and engineer effective solutions
• Testing out ideas in a near real-world scenario.

For TCS:

• Understanding the theory and concepts behind new techniques
• Getting involved in the development of new mechanisms to deal with problems
• Exposure to abstractions of problems of interest