The Microsoft Innovation Centers foster partnerships between academia, the industry, and Microsoft. Industry partnerships include software industry clusters, software quality certification programs, and support for select student-led research projects. Proof-of-concept projects and workshops for software companies are also offered.
Innovation :
Microsoft Innovation Centers help foster innovation through hands-on experiences and the use of custom courses. This includes many activities such as hands-on ISV Empowerment and Quality Assurance Initiatives labs for ISVs, start-ups, partners, students and entrepreneurs.
Experience Innovation:
This interactive micro-site was designed to give you a taste of some of the powerful things you can do with innovative technology today, offer a glimpse of breakthroughs that are just around the corner, and provide a vision for the future through the work of six researchers from Microsoft Research.

