 The AU-KBC Research Centre is a first of its kind, a public-private research centre in India, being the partnership between a wholly for-profit company (KBC Research Foundation Private Limited, KBCRF) and a state institution (Anna University).The Center has no employees, and all researchers stationed there are employees of the for-profit company KBCRF.The Centre's original goal, when it had its own employees, was to generate research and products of international quality.