Technology And Market Watch Tool Passas

Technology and market watch tool Isidoros Passas Pilot Application for Incubator of Technopolis Thessaloniki SA

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Commission adopts strategy for “ Creative Content Online ”

Challenge 1: Availability of creative content
Lack of availability of creative content for online distribution and lack of active licensing of rights on new platforms remain major obstacles for the development of online content services. Since online content is a nascent market, the value of new forms of distribution is sometimes still unknown. This results in major difficulties in settling terms of trade for online exploitation of creative content. Most of the difficulties related to availability of content are considered as inherent to emerging markets, and stakeholders are expected to find innovative and collaborative solutions to exploit content online and prevent or remedy bundling, exclusivity or non-use of media rights.

Challenge 2: Multi-territory licensing for creative content
The online environment allows content services to be made available across the Internal Market. However, the lack of multi-territory copyright licenses makes it difficult for online services to fully benefit from the Internal Market potential. While it is first for right holders to appreciate the potential benefits of multi-territory licensing, there is a need to improve the existing licensing mechanisms to allow for the development of multi-territory licensing mechanisms.

Challenge 3: Interoperability and transparency of Digital Rights Management systems (DRMs)
Technologies allowing management of rights in the online environment can be a key enabler for the content sector's digital shift and for the development of innovative business models - especially with regard to high value content. As lengthy discussions among stakeholders did not yet lead to the deployment of interoperable DRM solutions, there is a need to set a framework for transparency of DRMs regarding interoperability, by ensuring proper consumer information with regards to usage restrictions and interoperability.

Challenge 4: Legal offers and piracy
Piracy and unauthorised up - and downloading of copyrighted content remains a central concern. It would seem appropriate to instigate co-operation procedures ("code of conduct") between access/service providers, right holders and consumers in order to ensure a wide online offer of attractive content, consumer-friendly online services, adequate protection of copyrighted works, awareness raising/education on the importance of copyright for the availability of content and close cooperation fight piracy / unauthorised file-sharing.

The developed tool
The tool incorporates intelligent features to find, filter and develop information on technological advancements, competition, and market environments.

The tool

The admin module

Methodology on gathering the information
To gather the information that would be relative to the incubates a set of sources have been used and a number of extra tools have been developed. The main concept was to identify information that would be of an extra value to the users of the tool.

The main sources of information were the following
Google search engine
Google Alerts
Yahoo pipes
Yahoo search engine
Athens Stock Exchange Website ATHEX
epractice.eu newsletter
Greek National documentation center (EKT)
Information Society the official Greek portal for I.S.
Ecommercetimes News letter
TechNewsWorld
Wired e-magazine
McKnisey Quartely newsletter
Europe’s Information Society Thematic Portal
European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry
The Observatory for the Greek Information Society

Extra developed tools
Yahoo Pipes
Macro for MS –Word
RSS Feeds

Yahoo Pipes
Pipes is a powerful composition tool developed by Yahoo, to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. The Pipes editor is a free JavaScript authoring tool, developed by Yahoo, that lets its registered user to create and edit Pipes in an intuitive visual interface. The editor consists of the following three panes: the Library pane on the left hand side lists available modules and saved Pipes the Canvas pane in the center is the main work area for assembling Pipes the Debugger is a resizable pane at the bottom which lets you inspect Pipe output at various stages in your Pipe

Screen shot of Pipe implemented Ilyda SA

Pipes for the “Technology and Market Watch”
ATHEX ILYDA SA
ATHEX SINGULARLOGIC S.A.
ATHEX RAINBOW S.A.
ATHEX ALPHA GRISSIN INFOTECH S.A
ATHEX PC SYSTEMS S.A.
ATHEX Logismos
ATHEX INFORMER S.A.
ATHEX ALTEC
ATHEX PLAISIO COMPUTERS S.A.
ATHEX BYTE COMPUTER S.A.
ATHEX COSMOTE- MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS S.A
ATHEX HELLENIC TELECOM. ORG.
ATHEX PROFILE SYSTEMS & SOFTWARE SA
ATHEX LAN-NET S.A.
ATHEX Space Hellas
ATHEX QUALITY AND RELIABILITY S.A.
ATHEX ICT
ATHEX INTRACOM S.A. HOLDINGS
ATHEX MARAC ELECTRONICS
ATHEX NEXANS HELLAS S.A.
ATHEX IDEAL GROUP S.A.
ATHEX CPI COMPUTER PERIPHERALS INTERNATIONAL
ATHEX INFORMATICS S.A.
ATHEX INTERTECH S.A. INTER. TECHNOLOGIES
ATHEX HITECH SNT S.A.
ATHEX COMPUCON COMPUTER APPLICATIONS SA
ATHEX MLS MULTIMEDIA S.A.
ATHEX UNIBRAIN S.A.
ATHEX Forthnet S.A.
ATHEX POULIADIS ASSOCIATES CORPORATION
ATHEX UNISYSTEMS S.A.
ATHEX Info-Quest S.A.
ICT Sector Studies
For the collection of relevant material regarding the “Technology and Market Watch” tool of Medi-Cube a number of pipes have been designed and implemented. By using the pipes the collection of news and information regarding the main companies of the ICT sector in Greece was formalised and easily to identified daily.

ATHEX Content conversion
When you present information that is daily updated, it is considered to be crucial that the format is the same, so that the recipient of the information be equitant and he or she does not have to look continuously to identify the sections that are more interested to him. The presentation of the daily Indices data, regarding the ICT sector, from Athens Stock Exchange ATHEX was achieved by implementing a macro module in MS Word (see Annex 1: Macro Code for ASE Content Conversion) where with few daily commands the content from the ATHEX web was converted to satisfy the requirements of the Technology and market watch tool.

Table of Posts per category Total: 190 Research centres Experts Resources Offers / calls of tender Market trends / Futures Market news Consumer preferences / societal trends Market opportunities Regulation / standards R&D news 11 10 2 12 9 31 8 10 16 0 Post Categories 2 Expos 3 Conferences 2 Innovation 14 VCs – Business angels 15 Funding opportunities 10 The stock market watch 7 Sector studies and reports 12 Main companies in the sector 7 Contract announcements 9 Competition / competitors

Technology And Market Watch Tool Passas

by URENIO Research Unit on Mar 21, 2008

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