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Resources to Fuel Your Future
Innovation is critical to sustained commercial success. Kodak External Alliances (KEA) is fueling Kodak's technology future by building strategic relationships with universities, government labs and privately-held companies
in support of Kodak’s digitally oriented growth strategy focused on consumers use of digital and traditional products and services to take, print and share their pictures anytime, anywhere; Businesses effectively communicate with customers worldwide using Kodak solutions for prepress,
conventional and digital printing and document imaging; and Creative Professionals rely on Kodak technology to uniquely tell their story through moving or still images.
Driven by a Mission
Strengthen Kodak’s competitive position by seeking out and leveraging global strategic innovation, technology and intellectual property through alliances with universities, privately-held companies, government and research institutions.
Technology Interest Areas
Disruptive technologies are on the horizon, poised to propel the next wave of growth. KEA is focused on
accessing those technologies at an early stage in the innovation pipeline to fuel digital growth with new
and existing businesses. Technology areas of interest include:
Digital Media and Systems (includes images, videos and audio)
- Human-computer interaction and interfaces
- Content-based media search and retrieval - semantic systems
- Natural language processing
- Automated media content understanding and classification
- People recognition (face detection, recognition, behavior, movement)
- Automated image/video analysis and manipulation
- Creative/automated applications on connected devices
- Social networking
- Media management architectures for distributed collections
- Cost effective, scalable storage and archive solutions
- Novel media capture and display concepts
- Computational photography
- Enhanced image capture/sensor functionality
Printing Technologies
- Printing workflow management software
- Novel print creation and finishing technologies and devices
- In-line color control systems and software
- Microfluidic processes for printing applications
- Electrophotographic components and materials
- Novel polymer and dispersion compositions for inks and colorants
- Polymer substrate compatible inks
- Energy curable inks
- High heat conductive polymers
- Authentication systems, materials and detection hardware
Emerging Materials Technologies
- Micro-opto-electromechanical systems (MOEMS)
- Self-assembled layers
- Barrier layer technology
- Surfact modifying materials and technologies
- Low temperature dielectric materials and process
- Novel light emitting materials and devices
- Transparent conductors
- Stimulus responsive polymers
- Optoelectronic materials and devices
- Thin-film materials, fabrication and device architectures:
- Thin film deposition and patterning
- Atmospheric pressure thin film deposition
- Atomic layer deposition
- Atmospheric pressure plasmas
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