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 2

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 3

Collaborative Research 4 Technology Providers Academic Researchers Users of Technology

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

Accelerating Information Flows 6 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 7

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

A Natural Ecosystem 9

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

Making it Happen (3) 11 Customers Government Funding

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 12

Infonomic Center Vienna 13 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 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 14

Thank you for your attention! See you in Vienna! 15