On a more subtle level, Intel expects to win by using its collaboration with university researchers and its selective funding of other academic research to connect fragmented university research programs into larger research programs. These larger programs, in turn, will inform
Open Innovation @ Intel 123 Intel’s future architectures and give the company the ability to coordinate external research more effectively at larger scale. This approach will also be fairly cost-effective, because Intel expects to leverage the research infrastructure at these leading university establishments instead of duplicating that infrastructure inside its own four walls