CDAC professes the policy of establishing the balance between research and teaching for higher education. Thus, fundamental premise of the academic culture at the Center is the inter-mixing and interaction of research and education. While advancing knowledge and understanding, it is expected that the research activity would provide experience in theory and experimentation for students and professionals, and at the same time it would ensure that classroom teaching remains up-to-date and relevant. Simultaneously, the teaching activity is expected to provide an ambience in which the relevance, accomplishments and vitality of its research are concurrently embedded in the knowledge up- gradation process to provide a competitive edge to the students and professionals.

The Research Perspective Plan for higher education covers the following:
1. Development of technologies in emerging areas of Information Technology benchmarked to international standards.
2. Increasing R&D productivity in the above areas in terms of manpower performance.
3. Consolidating the existing distinct capabilities of CDAC, Noida and to continue acquiring state of the art skills.

Integration of both research and teaching at CDAC, Noida aims to sharpen the focus on knowledge application in solving real life industrial problems and creation of intellectual property.

Interaction with Industry

A large number of distinguished organizations interact with the Institute through research and consultancy services, which bear testimony to the important role played by the Institution in national development. The Institute on request also undertakes specific tailor made courses for personnel from the Industry.
The focus of Consultancy Services is on Enterprise Resource Planning, Corporate Strategy, Business Process Engineering, GIS, CRM and Networking & Customization of Software Applications. In the Hardware Systems, the unit undertakes Requirement Analysis, Design, Simulation, Prototyping, Testing and Complete Technology Development and Transfer.
Pioneering efforts have been made by the Institute to make available a number of technology packages to various organizations in the country. This has resulted in development of interdisciplinary research linkages between the institution and various industries. A number of technologies/processes are available for commercial exploitation.
The Unit has established collaboration alliance with global technology leaders like Microsoft, IBM, Compaq and Oracle. For enhancing R&D academia interface, working relationships have also been established with Institutions like IIT (Roorkee), GGSIP University Delhi and AICTE, New Delhi.