Paolo TraversoDirectorCenter for Information TechnologyFBK-IRSTtraverso@fbk.eu

FBK-IRST: Nuove Sfide per la Ricerca e Nuovi Modelli per l'Innovazione

Positioning FBK in the Local Context

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GOVERNANCE

INNOVATION

MARKET

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITIES

RESEARCH

FBK is the research center of the

Autonomous Province of Trento

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FBK: Fondazione Bruno Kessler

• FBK:

• the largest public founded research foundation in Italy

• Goal:

• the development, promotion, and dissemination of research

activities to support the scientific, technological, economical

and social development of Trentino, opening Trentino to an

international dimension

• Research Areas:

• Human Sciences

• Scientific & Technological

Research

• Critical Mass:

• More than 250 researchers and developers

• About 20 MEuros budget / year

• International excellence:

• Top cited authors in computer science (see, e.g., citeseer, ISI index, …)

• 9 Millions Euros funding in ICT from EU projects in the VI framework

• 10 EU projects in the first call of the VII framework (e.g., 1 Meuro funding in Software & Services)

• 23 EU projects currently “running” in ICT

• 14 spin-off s in the last 3 years

• Academic grants from major international companies (e.g., Intel Corporation)

FBK-IRST

European Projects in ICT since 2004

APOSDLE

PATExpert

QALL-ME

DICIT

ONE

MEGAFRAME

ALLOW

JUMASMy-e-Director 2012

S-Cube

POCEMON

ATHENIS

COCONUTTC-STAR

VIKEF

CHIL

AMICOMHUMAINE

HIWIREGOODFOODHarmo-TEN

X_Media

QUROPE

NETCARITY

SCALA

CatnetsPROSYD

SLA@SOI

FLUMODCONT

MISSA

GRAINCAM

ARASCOM

HIPERDART

FLARENET

FLARENETMEMSPACK

MUSISHYPERIMAGE

• GST

• OPTO-I

• NEURICAM

• eCTRL

• EYE-PRO-SYSTEM

• D-THINK

• MPA Solutions

• BioSiLab

• MTT Pro s.r.l.

• Waycom s.r.l.

• Molecular Stamping

• PerVoice

….three more in progress

Some Recent Spin offs

FBK-IRST: Two Centers

Interaction

Content

Engineering

Center for Information Technology

Smart IntegratedSystems

Microsystems

AdvancedMaterials

Smart IntegratedSystems

Microsystems

AdvancedMaterials

Center for Materials & Microsystems

“Engineering”design, development, verification, validation and mainteinance of software systems: evolution, adaptation, embedded software, service oriented software

“Interaction”Effective interaction with external world, with people as well as signals acquired from the environment (e.g., immages, sound, speech, visual and acoustic scenes)

“Content”Content extraction from structured data (e.g., distributed DB), semi-structured (Web), unstructured (natural language text, immages, speech, sound)

FBK-IRST Information Technology

Interaction

Content

Engineering

Human LanguageTechnologies

Audio-Acoustic interpretation

Predictive Models

Data & KnowledgeManagement

Intelligent Interaction & Interfaces

Technologies for Vision

SoftwareEngineering

Service OrientedApplications

EmbeddedSystems

FBK-IRST Information Technology

“Advanced Materials”Study and development of innovative materials, both organic and inorganic, with particular emphasis on the study of thin films, nanostructures, and surfaces

“Smart Integrated Sensors”Development of intelligent sensors and systems that add to the microsystems potentiality the possibility of information processing as well as the capability to communicate with the real world

“Microsystems”Development of technological platforms aimed at the construction of microsystems able to carry out different duties, both sensorial and implementation duties

FBK-IRST Materials & Microsystems

Smart Integrated Systems

Advanced Materials

MicroSystems

Bio-MEMS

Advanced Materials for Biosensors/Bioelectronics(M2B2)

Integrated Optical Sensors and Interfaces (SOI)

MemSRaD

Plasma and Advanced Materials (PAM )

MTLab

FBK-IRST Materials & Microsystems

Focused Research to Push Innovation

Information Technology

• Focused research:

• International excellence through research that is focused

on key topics of ICT; research of practical impact with

experimental/practical evidence of the added value for

the “market”, “culture”, “society”

• To push innovation:

• through “common spaces” that involve local and

international companies in a systematic and structural

way and open Trentino to collaborations at the

international level

FBK-IRST: The Mission

Information Technology

New Challenges for Research

“ICT cross-cutting Services, Media & People...”

Human Interaction

Networking

Ambient Interaction

People

ServicesMedia

Telco 3.0 + Web 3.0

Internet of Things, Hidden Computing

Beyond PC,Internet for all

Internet of Services, Services for all

Multimedia Search, Multilanguage,

3D media internet

People Network with People, Services, Media

“Innovation through a Networked System”

� Network of Systematic & Structural Partnerships, involving local actors

and opening to national & international partnerships

� Common Spaces where such actors can work together, invent, develop,

experiment innovative solutions

� Innovation through experimentation in the local context, the local

system becomes both the main actor that pushes innovation and means to

experiment innovation

New Models for Innovations

Information Technology

• A network of specific nodes: specific competences and

different roles for each actor, still a common network of

partners

• Continuous chain : research challenges that trigger

innovation processes over a continuos chain of research,

experimentation, production & services

• Local and International: exploit the local dimension to

produce results of international interest

Research & Innovation Programs

Information Technology

Conclusions

Thank you for your attention!