1. The Walqa Laboratory Prof. Dr. Pedro-José Bueso Guillén, LL.M. Eur.
Workshop on
“Knowledge Society and Law.
Compared Experiences from Mediterranean Europe”
Rome, 26 April 2004
The Walqa Laboratory
Prof. Dr. Pedro-José Bueso Guillén, LL.M. Eur.
Professor for Commercial Law, Dept. for Enterprise Law,
University of Zaragoza.
Law School Co-ordinator, Legal & Business Laboratory, Technology Park Walqa

2. Legal & Business Laboratory
Summary
Initiative Walqa
Technology Park Walqa
Location and Installations
Advanced Laboratories UZ
Facilities
Initial Goals
Research Areas  LAW & BUSINESS
Legal & Business Laboratory
Staff
Activities  evolution
Management
Specific Teaching  LEFIS
Research
Strenghts and Prospects

3. Initiative Walqa Goals Stategic Actions Wideband Network
Aragón  Point of Reference for e-business in Spain
Improve Integration of SMEs in Internet and e-Business
Adaptation of Compulsory and Occupational Training to ICT
Infrastructures
Adoption by Society of ICT
Stategic Actions
Wideband Network
Centre of Excellence
Technology Park
Alliance with University of Zaragoza

4. Technology Park Walqa Start of operations: January 2002
Promoters: Regional Government of Aragón and Town Council of Huesca
Goal: To Became a Pole of Innovation and R&D in the Field of ITC, Internet and e-Commerce
Nowadays managed by an Public Agency
Technology Park Walqa is Member of:

5. Location Map (I)
Bolskan
HUESCA
Olskan
Osca
Wasqa

6. Superficie del Parque:
Location Map (II)
Hacia
Huesca
CEEI
Zaragoza
Superficie del Parque:
m2 = 52,9 Ha.
UNIVERSIDAD

7. Aerial View (I)

8. Aerial View (II)

9. Surface View

10. Technology Park Walqa To Achieve Its Goal 
Concentration of a Critical Mass of ICT Companies
Looking for Favouring the Growth of ICT Sector in Aragón
Taking Maximum Advantage of Human Resources with High ICT Qualifications in Aragón  Strategic Alliance with UZ:
Degrees on Telecomunications and Informatics Engineering
Research Teams 
 Advanced Laboratories UZ

11. Advanced Laboratories UZ Membership in IASP and APTE
Essential Element for Technology Park Walqa to Became a Pole of Innovation and R&D in ICT, Internet and e-Commerce:
Membership in IASP and APTE
Installations:
500 m2 Surface Area in Building No. 1 of Technolgy Park Walqa
Operative since February 2003

12. Advanced Laboratories UZ
Facilities (Common Use):
76 Workstations
3 Senior Offices
Technical Floor
ADSL Connection 512Kb to UZ  Next: Optical Fiber Connection to RACI
Servers:
4 Servers SUN + 1 Disks Server: Domain Administration (Windows NT), Structural Management of Internal Network, Web Services (HTTP, ...), Firewall, Data Bases, Development, etc.
1 Backup Robot
1 SAI
Computers:
Over 50 PCs: From Pentium Celeron 633MHz + 128MB RAM + 10GB HD Since Pentium IV + 512MB RAM + 60GB HD
OS Windows y Linux
Office & Specific Software
Other Hardware:
Color Laser Printers
Scanners
Computer Assisted Teaching Area

13. Advanced Laboratories UZ Origins
Promotion Institute of Aragón +
University of Zaragoza
Technology Institute of Aragón
Collaboration Agreement on the Promotion of Training of High Qualified Human Resources and of Increasing of R+D+I Capabilities in the field of ICT in Aragón
June 2001

14. Advanced Laboratories UZ
Initial Goals
Teaching:
Applied Lectures (Compulsory Training)
LL.M. Thesis
Ph. D. Thesis
Teaching for Professionals and Companies
Research & Development:
Research Proyects
Support to ICT Companies  Helping Technology Park Companies in:
Test Beds for New Products
Co-operation Programmes

15. Advanced Laboratories UZ
Research Areas
In order to Achive the Initial Goals Were Created FIVE Laboratories in Tecnology Park Walqa:
Engineering Laboratories:
UMTS Applications Laboratory
Radiofrecuency (RF) Laboratory
Broadband Laboratory
Advanced Computing Laboratory
At the moment: In Redeployment
Legal & Business Laboratory

16. Legal & Business Laboratory
Staff
Senior Staff (Ph. D.):
2 Co-ordinators of the Business School
1 Co-ordinator of the Law School
1 Senior Manager in situ
Junior Staff (LL. M.):
4 Permanent Grant-Holders
3-6 Non-Permanent Grant-Holders

17. Legal & Business Laboratory Activities: Evolution
Regarding the Initial Goals:
Teaching:
No Compulsory Training
Focusing On Postgraduate Specific Training
Research:
Oriented to R&D with Companies
Support to ICT Companies:
Not Only Technology Park Walqa
Extending Support to Governmental Organizations
New - Management:
Events

18. Legal & Business Laboratory Activities: Management
APTICE
Workshops and Seminars:
Research Seminar on Accounting and Digital Enterprise (2003)
Next: Seminar on IS Observatories (2004)
Supporting:
Workshop on Teaching of e-Government (2003)
Seminar on e-Government: Teaching and Enterprise (2003)
Summer Course on e-Commerce (2003)
Next: Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA’04 (2004)

19. LEFIS Legal & Business Laboratory Activities: Specific Teaching
Direct-Linked Postgraduate Studies:
MeBA
D+TIC  Initiative
Supporting:
e-Business Strategies and Models
LEFIS
Master en Administración
Electrónica de Empresas

20. Legal & Business Laboratory Activities: Research (I)
Emerging Research Groups (20 Researchers  11 Ph. D.)
Financial and Economic Analysis of the Digital Enterprise
e-Commercial Promotion, Contracting and Taxing
Data Protection and Digital Signature

21. Legal & Business Laboratory Activities: Research (II)
Observatory of the Information Society of Aragón (OASI)
Proyect Equal
PROFIT 2003  Next: PROFIT 2004
Next: Chamber of Commerce

22. Legal & Business Laboratory
Strengths
Need of Such a Partner on Legal & Business Matters  Usefulness
Real Interactive Combination of Law & Business  Interdisciplinarity
Institutional Roots  Neutrality
Aviability of High Qualified Researchers to Fill Gaps
 Complementarity
UZ Research Organization
 Flexibility

23. Legal & Business Laboratory
Prospects
To Improve Strengths
To Consolidate  Basic Structure – also Legally  Autonomy
To Take On Core Functions of Centre of Excellence (Now Being Reconsidered)
To Develope Tasks in e-Government and to Combine Them with Tasks in e-Commerce and e-Business
 A Real Chance for
Institutional Supported R&D

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