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. Presenter. John Tait Chief Scientific Officer of the Information Retrieval Facility, Vienna - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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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

Linkedin

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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Funding

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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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