Membership – CSSM

CSSM Membership Agreement Form

Membership Categories:

Strategic Partners: An annual commitment of at least $60,000

Institutional Partners: An annual commitment of at least $40,000

Institutional Members: An annual commitment of $10,000 (or $5,000 for small businesses)

All Institutional Members enjoy:

Ability to propose research topics
Access to selected research equipment and testbed facilities
Facilitation of and/or participation in joint proposal opportunities
Access to faculty experts and their knowledge base
Access to students associated with the CSSM, including graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and undergraduate and graduate coops, interns and fellows
Access to short courses, workshops, meetings and conferences
Ability to hire trained graduates as COOPs before graduation
Access to research and development results up to 6 months before publication

Partners at $40,000 level and above enjoy these additional benefits:

Access to non-proprietary information
A seat on the CSSM Industrial Advisory Board to influence research directions.
Immediate access to Intellectual Property: non-exclusive, royalty-free research licenses for the use of existing CSSM IP for internal, non-commercial purposes.

Strategic Partners Membership Specific Benefit Details:

In addition to the above, staragtigic partners can:

Guide the research directions for their membership fees
Royalty-free research licenses for the use of existing CSSM technologies for internal, non-commercial purposes and priority access to new patents associated with paid fees.

Membership fees may be used toward the following:

Members can direct a portion of the membership to: