Web Portal for IMT ProvidersPanagiotis Tsarchopoulos - URENIO Research Unit

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Portal a definition

Portals provide a secure, single point of interaction with diverse information, business processes, and people, personalized to a user's needs and responsibilities.

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Portal examples

Horizontal portals

Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com)

Excite (http://www.excite.cm)

MSN (http://www.msn.com)

Vertical portals

Business (http://www.business.com/) Business

Expedia (http://www.expedia.com/) Travel

Wine (http://www.wine.com) Food

elance (http://www.elance.com/) Services

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http://portal.urenio.org Innovation portal of Central

Macedonia

Information about all the organisations involved in or contribute to the development of innovation in the Region of Central Macedonia

• Information are organized on a sector base.

• Limited search capabilities

• On-line applications

• Lack of personalisation features

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Web Portal for IMT Providers Main Objective

The activation of European companies in Innovation applications through the facilitation in reaching international expertise.

The promotion of local institutes that provide IMT services in the VERITE partner and other IRE network regions.

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Content

• Companies or institutions that provide IMT services:

– Private companies– University Labs– Public Research Institutes– Public and private institutions and

authorities which are related to such activities

– Etc.

• News - Events

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Source of information

• The VERITE partner institutes according to the obligations arise from the local dissemination plan.

• Relevant companies and institutes who would like to be promoted.

The portal will be fully open to the public and any interested company or institution will be able to apply being listed through the internet.

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Type of information (required)

Each entry will be described with a minimum amount of information:

• Name

• Organization type (Company, Institute etc)

• Thematic Area

• Region

• Contact Details

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Type of information (optional)

• Short description

• Services

• Expertise

• Other contact details

• Keywords

• Official website address

• etc.

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Audience

• Local administration authorities.

• Manufacturing and other companies (potential clients of the registered institutions).

• Research institutes who search for potential partners for National and European Projects.

• People who search for a relevant job.

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Relation to other VERITE activities

• Technology ClinicsSearching technology providers

• BenchmarkingSearch for companies for one to one benchmarking

• Supply Chain Management and MRPSearch for relevant software apps providers

• New product development

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Classification scheme / user interface

Two types of classification– per region/country– per thematic area

Advance search using– keywords– regional data– categories– Etc.

The users would be able to seek what they want using integrated searching and browsing interfaces that are both powerful and flexible.

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Content map

IMTProviders

Spain

Benchmarking

Italy

MRP

Technology Clinics

Supply Chain Management

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Greece

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Personalisation

Personalized content to a user's needs.

• Portal’s home page will be constructed from various modules according to the user’s profile (myportal).

• Email notification system.

• Use of cookies in order to the system “remember” the user.

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Common design issues

The need for common design rises from the fact that IMT’s Portal, Discussion Forum and Knowledge Base will have approximately the same audience.

Close cooperation between URENIO Research Unit and GIB GmbH

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After the end of the project

Financial Support

• Private or public funding

• Advertising

• Subscribed users

• Listed companies will be able to pay for extra information / visibility

The expansion of the portal is essential in order the above model to be successful.

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Next steps

• 1st October 2002Draft application

• 15 November 2002Fully operational version

• Continuous upgrade throughout the project