BRIC
Bridging industry, higher education and the entrepreneurial community, the BRIC is where innovation happens in Greater Waco!
Capabilities
Advanced cold-weather research facility featuring a -35°C, high-altitude environmental chamber for rapid acclimatization, casualty care, and tactical performance testing.
Our clean room offers over 1000 sq. ft. of Class 1,000 cleanroom space that houses the equipment necessary to pattern structures and devices at the nanoscale implementing Electron Beam and Optical Lithography.
Bringing vision to reality through education and training of cybersecurity leaders, transformational applied research, trusted analysis & consulting, and community engagement.
Providing imaging, testing, manufacturing, and sample preparation and measurement.
Performing cutting-edge research in robotics, additive and advanced manufacturing, smart communications, and advanced materials, we aim to enable decentralized, local production of components and products.
Working to solve tomorrow’s wireless spectrum issues today. SMART Hub is developing next-generation technologies for unprecedented spectrum agility, enabling a revolution in how the world uses the wireless spectrum.
Baylor University provides research, development, testing and other solutions to industry, defense, and startups in Waco, Texas, and beyond.
The BRIC is an environment where industries, innovators, and entrepreneurs have on-site access to cutting-edge research and scientific talent accelerating the translation of research into new products driving economic growth.
Baylor works with many military, defense and governmental agencies to design solutions for complex problems, while providing safe, secure, and confidential outcomes.
Baylor actively fosters innovation by partnering with campus and community resources to host programs, train entrepreneurs, and provide support for startup launches.
Ecosystem Partners
Startup Waco is a local organization that supports and fosters the growth of entrepreneurs and startups in the Waco area.
Keep Waco Beautiful is a local organization dedicated to preserving and enhancing the environment and beauty of Waco through community initiatives and programs.
WAVE is a Waco based venture capital firm focused on investing in high tech, high growth startups.
Brazos Innovation Partners evaluates technology, forms teams, and helps to commercialize new ventures.
News
MoreElite CAREER Awards spur high-level research by young Baylor faculty.
More than sixty Baylor University inventors were recognized and celebrated by the Office of Innovation & Economic Development at the 2026 Innovation 2 Impact reception on May 6.
Paul Allison can’t be there when equipment breaks down in the field. But the technology he develops will soon have soldiers back in the vehicles that support safer approaches to achieving their mission.
Baylor University debuted a first-of-its-kind research and development center on April 13 with the grand opening of the Arctic Acclimatization & Sleep Optimization (ARKTOS) Research Center in the Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC). ARKTOS will develop knowledge products and biomedical technologies that assess and mitigate the impact of multi-stressor Arctic environments on sleep, cognition and human performance.
Based in Central Texas, ARKTOS pioneers research and technologies to help military and civilian teams rapidly prepare for Arctic deployment.
Both military and corporate organizations recognize that dwindling space will soon impact their users, like those who protect our freedom. Baylor SMART Hub researchers are pursuing entirely new approaches to spectrum communication.
Cybersecurity is a field facing significant national and statewide talent shortages, but Baylor’s new initiative aims to help just that.
Baylor, through its leadership of the Central Texas Cyber Hub, launched the K-12 Cyber Security Pathways Program, a new initiative to prepare high school students for immediate entry into the cybersecurity workforce or continued education.
A multidisciplinary team of Baylor researchers is working to advance technology that could drastically reduce the time and logistical footprints needed for the sustainable development and repair of products for the U.S. military, thank to a $15 million congressional appropriation.