Since its foundation in 1986, the IMS has been involved in joint projects with industrial partners, and has granted licenses for IMS software and resources. Here is an incomplete list of partners (in alphabetical order) and respective projects:

• Bibliographisches Institut & F. A. Brockhaus AG (Dudenverlag), Mannheim
  (Automatische Exzerption, 2001-2003)
• Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart
  (Lemmatization rules for a text retrieval system)
• DaimlerChrysler AG, Ulm
  (Smartkom, 1999-2003; Verbmobil, 1993-2000)
• European Media Laboratory GmbH, Heidelberg
  (GenIE)
• IBM Germany GmbH, Stuttgart + Heidelberg
  (LILOG - Linguistic and Logic Methods for Natural Language Processing, 1986-1991; Verbmobil, 1993-1996)
• Langenscheidt KG, München
  (Automatische Exzerption, 2001-2003)
• Lexiquest, Paris
  (German Morphosyntactic Dictionary derived from IMSLex)
• Philips, Aachen
  (Smartkom, 1999-2003, Verbmobil, 1993-2000)
• Siemens AG, München
  (Smartkom, 1999-2003, Verbmobil, 1993-2000)
• Sony GmbH, Stuttgart
  (Smartkom, 1999-2003)
• Xerox, Grenoble + Palo Alto
  (ParGram; SPARKLE, 1996-1998; licensee of IMS CorpusWorkbench/CQP and of IMSLex data)