Collaborative Research, Technology Transfer and Networking
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Collaborative Research, Technology Transfer and Networking Essential Tools for Europe’s Way towards Information Society John Tait
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Collaborative Research, Technology Transfer and Networking
Essential Tools for Europe’s Way towards Information Society
John Tait
Presenter
• John Tait– Chief Scientific Officer of the Information Retrieval
Facility, Vienna• Based on discussions with Francisco Webber,
Chair of the IRF Executive Board
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The IRF Innovation Cycle• Creating an ecosystem which:
– Accelerates innovation– Ensures fair rewards for all participants– Encourages academic research on problems of
industrial interest– Promotes open sharing of information, data and
technology
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Collaborative Research
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Technology Providers
Academic Researchers
Users of Technology
Networking
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Professional Services
Users of Technology
Cloud Computing Information Extraction
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Professional Services
Users of Technology
Cloud Computing Information Extraction
Mashup’s
Gate
Weka
Standard test tasks
Accelerating Information Flows
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Open Repositories
Professional Services
Users of Technology
Cloud Computing Information Extraction
Open Data
Accelerating Technology Transfer• Collaboration
– Between different groups of specialists– Between Academics, Business and Industry– Between those who need solutions and those who
can provide them
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Making it happen (1)
• Every Ecosystem needs to be nurtured– Energy in– Nutrients– Reproduction
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A Natural Ecosystem
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Making it happen (2)
• This ecosystem– Finance (for everyone)– Other rewards
• Academics publish• Businesses Innovate, compete and develop• Governments get re-elected
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Making it Happen (3)
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A Real Instantiation in Vienna• The upcoming IRF Industry Portal
– Focussed on patent search• Including Communities of professionals, scientists and
searchers• Market for software and data• Collaboration with the academics through the IRF
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Infonomic Center Vienna
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Infonomics = the future of economics and information sciences
– Node for research, business and industry– Interdisciplinary intersection– Modern seminar-, conference- and service
center– Foster openness and cooperation– Exchange of technology companies, academic
institutions, public institutions, and non-profit organisations
A collaborative platform for the information economies of the 21st century
IRF Symposium 2010Benchmarking Relevance
• Research meets practice• More than 30 international speakers• 6 sessions
Evaluation, Interfacing, Multilinguality, Annotations, Image Retrieval, Chemistry• Tutorials about visual workflow• Strategic Seminar: IP as indicator of R&D strategies• First IRF Scientific Conference• PatOlympics• Exhibition of novel technologies by commercial providers and
research groups
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Thank you for your attention!See you in Vienna!
www.ir-facility.org
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