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Collaborative Research, Technology Transfer and Networking

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

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Collaborative Research, Technology Transfer and Networking

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  1. Collaborative Research, Technology Transfer and Networking Essential Tools for Europe’s Way towards Information Society John Tait

  2. Presenter • John Tait • Chief Scientific Officer of the Information Retrieval Facility, Vienna • Based on discussions with Francisco Webber, Chair of the IRF Executive Board

  3. 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

  4. Collaborative Research Technology Providers Users of Technology Academic Researchers

  5. Networking Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Information Extraction Information Extraction Professional Services Professional Services Gate Users of Technology Users of Technology Mashup’s Linkedin Weka Standard test tasks 5

  6. Accelerating Information Flows Cloud Computing Information Extraction Professional Services Open Repositories Users of Technology Open Data

  7. 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

  8. Making it happen (1) • Every Ecosystem needs to be nurtured • Energy in • Nutrients • Reproduction

  9. A Natural Ecosystem

  10. Making it happen (2) • This ecosystem • Finance (for everyone) • Other rewards • Academics publish • Businesses Innovate, compete and develop • Governments get re-elected

  11. Making it Happen (3) Funding Funding Funding Funding Funding Funding Funding Government Customers

  12. 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

  13. Infonomic Center Vienna A collaborative platform for the information economies of the 21st century • 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

  14. IRF Symposium 2010 Benchmarking 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

  15. Thank you for your attention! See you in Vienna! www.ir-facility.org

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