Proximity Creates
Progress
RESEARCH & TALENT
Some breakthroughs happen in the lab. Others happen five minutes later over coffee. Innovation moves differently when researchers and industry work side by side.
Colfax Corner creates the kind of working environment where ideas develop through conversation, trust, iteration, and shared momentum. Conversations happen without scheduling. Collaboration develops through repetition. Work moves from concept into application through daily contact between people studying, discussing, and solving related problems.
Industry partners gain direct access to talent, and researchers gain direct access to the resources, expertise, and partnerships needed to bring their work into practice.
Built for
Applied Work
Notre Dame’s research is a central driver of this environment. Its growing work in artificial intelligence, advanced computing, and data analytics is not adjacent to this ecosystem but embedded within it, creating an inevitable exchange between academic research and industry application.
For companies seeking closer access to university research, emerging talent, and applied collaboration opportunities, proximity becomes a strategic advantage. It enables earlier engagement in development cycles, deeper work with researchers, and more direct pathways from concept to application.
This environment supports meaningful interaction through partner events, industry convenings, demos, showcases, and programming tied to research and workforce development.
Connected Computing & Secure Systems
Data Systems
Human-Centric AI
Integrated Materials Engineering
Aerospace Systems and Testing
$1.1B+
in funded research awards over the past five years
$246M
in research
awards (FY2026)
Top 100
U.S. patent-earning
institution
1 of 71
members of the Association of American Universities
faculty
graduate students
199
active international research awards
4,000+
$346M
in annual research expenditures
funded research projects over the last 5 years
4,000+
1,500+
