Experirnces of business collaboration in ICT research

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Experiences of business collaboration in ICT
research
Airi Salminen University of Jyväskylä http//www.c
s.jyu.fi/airi/ 18.10.2004
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The needs of business support for ICT evolution

• support for building new ICT solutions
• new business ideas
• learning new technologies
• developing and learning best practices
• finding models for future development
• identifying further development needs
• identifying and understanding problems, needs and
  constraints for development
• understanding the complex domain

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The needs of academia support for ICT research

• need to learn about real-world problems and
  solutions
• need to produce academic theses
• need to produce high-level international
  publications

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Business collaboration in ICT research
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Funding

• Companies involved in research development
• Public administration organizations involved in
  research development
• The national technology agency TEKES
• Academy of Finland
• European Commission

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Projects
Metodi methods for total document management in
industry Funding Tekes, Metso, Fortum, CSC,
Honeywell, Solution Garden, MetaCASE Consulting
inSGML Methods for SGML/XML standardization in
industry Funding Tekes, Nokia, Metso, The
Finnish Defence Forces, Tekla, iCALS
Programme HyperSoft Automated Hypertext Support
for Software Maintenance Funding Tekes, Nokia,
KT-Tietokeskus, TietoEnator
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Projects
RASKE Developing standards for structured
documents Funding Parliament of Finland,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance,
Prime Ministers Office, Academy of Finland,
Tekes EULEGIS European User Views to
Legislative Information in Structured Form
Partners TT Tieto, Parliament of Finland,
Ruotsin ja Norjan parlamentit, software companies
from Belgium, Great Britain, and Spain Funding
EU telematics Application Programme AirXML XML
and Data Warehousing in Air Defence Funding The
Fish Air Force RASKE2 Methods for the
Integration of Systems and Services in
e-Government Funding Parliament of Finlan,
Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice