Designing cities, regions and places by the crowd

The Incubators of Public Places provide the means to grow and care for places. What makes a place is the integration of spatial forms, built and open, that favours the interactions of people as they inhabit those spaces. In an Incubator, you can go online or join a public meeting, to shape easily your own scenario for the place, with clear and simple 3D models of spaces – as expect to be: flying through and walking around, exploring and making changes. Then, crowdfund the scenario, to provide your support, revamping the city as enjoyably as buying a book online.

Poster | Website

In a nutshell:

• Funded under the European 7th Framework Programme within the  JPI – Urban Europe call
• Budget: 1 Million Euro
• Partner: Politecnico di Torino (IT), Innovation Service Network GmbH (AT), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (B), Neurovation GmbH (AT), University College London (UK), Città di Torino (IT)

Innovationsstrategie virtuelles Unternehmen

ComVantage created a product-centric collaboration space for dynamic and flexible information exchange between multiple companies including the end-customer. ComVantage built on top of best practises from the Web for providing product-centric and workflow-based mobile apps. This includes the data publishing and integration practise Linked Data as well as Web 2.0 technologies such as  (micro-) blogging, tagging, wiki-based collaboration, and light-weight data APIs for private use in virtual factories. The collaboration space is an extension to existing business and engineering software that enables to share selected business data and machine data of interorganisational relevance to increase efficiency and flexibility of production processes throughout a dynamic network of manufacturers. ComVantage as collaborative manufacturing network for companies of any size will lead the European market to competitive advantage and sustainable business operations.

Results: Video | Website

In a nutshell:

• Funded unter the ICT call of the European 7th Framework Programme
• Budget: 11 Million Euro
• Partner: SAP AG (D), COMAU (IT), Evidian (F), Innovalia Associación Bilbao (ES), Ben Gurion University Negev (IL), BOC (ES), TU Dresden – Institut für Prozessleittechnik (D), ISN – Innovation Service Network d.o.o. (SI), Nextel S.a. (ES), Kölsch und Altmann GmbH (D), RST Automation GmbH (D), Dresscode21 GmbH (AT), Universität Wien – Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik (AT)

EMILIA: Electric Mobility for Innovative Freight Logistics in Austria

EMILIA primarily focusses on the development and experimental implementation of novel freight logistics concepts for urban areas especially tailored towards a significant use of electric mobility ranging from e-cargo tricycles to alternative fuelled road trains.

Partner: Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Austrian Mobile Power, Automobilcluster OÖ, Bitter, DPD, Econsult, Gebrüder Weiss, gleam technologies, HET Verkehrstechnik, Innovation Service Network (isn), Magana Steyr, Miba, REWE, Schachinger, SIGNON

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Just-in-time and real-time Learning will change HR practices

In a world of rapid change and continuous technological innovation the economy of the European Union relies heavily on the ability of their knowledge workers to learn efficiently and especially to manage and apply new knowledge effectively within their work processes.

The goal of the APOSDLE project is to significantly enhance knowledge worker productivity by supporting informal learning and teaching activities in the context of knowledge workers’ everyday work processes and within their work environments.

Ergebnisse: Video | Website

In a nutshell:

• supported by the European Community under the Information Society Technologies (IST) priority of the 6th framework programme for R&D (contract no. IST-027023).
• Budget: 12,9 Million Euro
• Partner: EADS Paris (F), IHK Darmstadt (D), ISN (SI), Fraunhofer Rostock (D), SAP Darmstadt (D), ComNet Media (D), Know Center GmbH (AT), TU Graz (AT), Joanneum Research (AT), City University London (UK), Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IT), University of Twente (NL)

Cross border network for innovation and technology cooperation between SME’s and research

In CrossInno isn represented the Austrian Lead Partner and implemented 25 innovative projects with SME’s in Carinthia.

Results: Website

In a nutshell:

• Implemented under the European Territorial Cooperation Operational Programme Slovenia–Austria 2007-2013, and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.
• Budget: 1 Million Euro
• Partner: Carinthian Tech Research (AT), Universität Klagenfurt (AT), Kompetenzzentrum Holz GmbH (AT), Universität Ljubljana (SI), Universität Maribor (SI) und BSC – Business Support Center Kranj (SI)

creativity@work

Preceding the foundation of the Neurovation GmbH in 2007 a two year interdisciplinary innovation research project – initiated by isn – was conducted inducing the establishment of the firm. The research project dealt with the creative process from a neuroscientific point of view and the respective applications in the field of creativity and idea generation support.

Results: www.neurovation.net

New Research Project: Crowd Fund Port