Nerac began operating in 1966 as the New England Research Application Center, an experimental collaboration between the University of Connecticut and the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA).

Over time, Nerac broadened its technology resources to encompass the full spectrum of engineering, scientific and business disciplines. In 1985, Nerac separated from the University of Connecticut and incorporated under the name Nerac, Inc. After having succeeded in its NASA-sponsored mission, Nerac separated from NASA in 1991.

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Today, Nerac is a Research and Advisory Firm for companies developing innovative products and technologies. Our team of cross disciplinary analysts serve as advisors and deliver custom assessments of product and technology development opportunities, competitive threats, Intellectual Property strategies, compliance requirements, and scientific review.

Our Analysts' thought leadership and expertise in many diverse industries and disciplines positions them to address our clients' most critical business, scientific and innovation challenges. Nerac's unique, cross-disciplinary research methodology allows our clients to leverage that expertise across their entire innovation cycle.

Nerac has grown from a trial-run experiment to a multi-million dollar corporation. As our services, partnerships and client base continue to grow, our goal remains the same; to provide valuable, actionable information to our clients, which in turn, fosters their continued growth and success.

Nerac clients attest to our commitment to provide them with the highest quality service – Over 50% of the most innovative companies identified by Business Week partner with Nerac!

Our clients demonstrate our value in helping them:

• Forecast emerging trends and new technologies
• Reduce product development cycle times and use of unnecessary resources
• Accelerate the pursuit of new market opportunities
• Protect and leverage intellectual property assets
• Innovate faster than the competition
• Deploy core technologies in new applications

The Nerac Difference

Nerac serves as a catalyst for new, innovative thinking, helping to generate, develop and distribute new ideas throughout an organization. We build a trusted partnership with our clients, creatively approaching their unique innovation process to identify strategic growth opportunities.

Nerac deploys analysts in diverse disciplines allowing our clients to apply expertise from outside their core areas to discover new applications and ideas that may not be apparent otherwise.

Clients benefit from our proven, blended approach to custom analysis:

• review of technical knowledge
• investigation of intellectual property
• appraisal of business impacts

Nerac provides clients with the best service in the industry, as our long-term relationships demonstrate. Nearly 90% of our clients renew their partnerships with us every year.