BlackBerry - A Teaching Case for WIPO by Intellectual Property Research Insti...imec.archive
This document provides background information on a patent dispute between NTP, Inc. and Research In Motion (RIM) regarding RIM's BlackBerry wireless device. NTP, which held patents related to wireless email technology, sued RIM for patent infringement in 2001. The case went through several years of litigation and appeals before the companies finally reached a settlement in 2006 where RIM paid NTP $612.5 million. The dispute threatened to shut down BlackBerry service and had significant impacts on RIM's business strategies and financials during the years of litigation.
31032010 we bbt workshop project managementimec.archive
This document outlines do's and don'ts for project management presented by Steven Deneir. It discusses continuously justifying the business case, learning from experience, defining roles and responsibilities, managing by exception, focusing on products, tailoring methods, involving stakeholders, avoiding becoming a fire-fighter through risk management, and maintaining work-life balance. The presentation provides examples and templates for various project management tasks.
BlackBerry - A Teaching Case for WIPO by Intellectual Property Research Insti...imec.archive
This document provides background information on a patent dispute between NTP, Inc. and Research In Motion (RIM) regarding RIM's BlackBerry wireless device. NTP, which held patents related to wireless email technology, sued RIM for patent infringement in 2001. The case went through several years of litigation and appeals before the companies finally reached a settlement in 2006 where RIM paid NTP $612.5 million. The dispute threatened to shut down BlackBerry service and had significant impacts on RIM's business strategies and financials during the years of litigation.
31032010 we bbt workshop project managementimec.archive
This document outlines do's and don'ts for project management presented by Steven Deneir. It discusses continuously justifying the business case, learning from experience, defining roles and responsibilities, managing by exception, focusing on products, tailoring methods, involving stakeholders, avoiding becoming a fire-fighter through risk management, and maintaining work-life balance. The presentation provides examples and templates for various project management tasks.
Brokerage2006 independent living systemsimec.archive
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
This document summarizes a study that compares Belgian and Dutch e-commerce websites to investigate if cultural differences between the two countries are reflected online. The study analyzed 40 websites from each country across various sectors. Results found that Belgian websites reflected higher levels of power distance and masculinity compared to Dutch websites, as indicated by providing more company hierarchy information, depicting CEOs more frequently, and using superlatives and explicit comparisons more often. Contrary to expectations, Belgian websites did not reflect higher uncertainty avoidance. No significant differences were found in levels of collectivism reflected on the websites.
I Minds2009 Secure And Distributed Software Prof Wouter Joosen (Ibbt Distri...imec.archive
This document discusses secure and distributed software. It summarizes the security research expertise at IBBT-DistriNet, including secure programming languages, security middleware, cryptography, privacy technologies, and more. It highlights several research projects in security, such as PecMan which introduced a security service bus, Turbine on digital identity solutions, and HATS to develop advanced software validation tools. The document emphasizes the relevance of this security research given trends towards more distributed systems and growing privacy needs. It outlines IBBT-DistriNet's vision to be a leader in security research and its collaborations within Europe and Flanders.
The document outlines opportunities and challenges in e-Science. It discusses how e-Science relies on massive computing and large datasets to unify theory, experimentation, and simulation. This represents a major shift in research paradigms. However, challenges remain around organizing, mining, and understanding huge amounts of data. Scientists must also become experts in complex computing methods, taking away from their primary research. There is an opportunity for "here and now" business tools to help scientists focus on research instead of computing.
BEgrid is the Belgian grid for research providing 450 CPUs and 3 TB of storage. It currently has participants from several Belgian universities and research institutions and aims to grow its resources to 1000 CPUs by the end of the year. BEgrid connects to other grids through EGEE and Dutchgrid, allowing its researchers access to over 30,000 CPUs. It is certified for EGEE and participates in discussions around the future European Grid Infrastructure (EGI).
Modal verbs are used to change or complete the meaning of the main verb. They express concepts like ability, possibility, deduction, obligation, prohibition, and advice. Modal verbs don't use third person singular 's' and are followed by the basic form of another verb. They don't change spelling or have infinitives or participles. Negation uses 'not' rather than a form change. Examples are given for ability (can, could, be able to), possibility (may, might, could), deduction (must, can't), obligation (have to, must), prohibition (must not), and advice (should, ought to).
This document discusses videoconferencing tools and provides an overview of their advantages and technologies. It shares the IBBT community's experience with videoconferencing meetings based on an online survey. Tips are provided for both web-based videoconferencing using IM/VoIP software and dedicated systems like WebEx. Best practices for videoconferencing meetings are outlined from literature. Finally, future developments like the ICON iCoCoon system are briefly mentioned.
G-Flux creates smartphone applications that combine outdoor activities, GPS, and fun. They have developed a prototype Android app called BikeFlux that tracks cycling routes and activities. Going forward, they plan to continue developing new apps, find customers, and release beta versions on a monthly basis through their student-entrepreneurship venture.
This document discusses an interactive role playing activity called "We-BBT 2009" that aims to improve collaboration and interdisciplinary work in IBBT projects. The activity will simulate real-life challenges by assigning participants stereotypical researcher characters across different universities. Participants will work in teams to complete assignments while facing coordination, communication, and collaboration challenges. The activity aims to provide insight into improving tools like MyBBT to better support interdisciplinary collaboration within IBBT projects.
This document discusses adoption potential analysis and its importance in technology product development and introduction strategies. It provides three key reasons for conducting adoption potential analysis: 1) To understand the true market potential for an innovation, especially among slower technology adopters; 2) To determine the ideal product configuration to maximize potential; and 3) To identify the best introduction strategy to appeal to early adopters and unlock the larger market potential. The document advocates for adoption potential analysis to be a complementary tool that informs business modeling, user research, and new product development processes to create more user-driven and successful innovations.
There are three main types of conditional patterns in conditional sentences: Pattern A is used for probable conditions, Pattern B is used for improbable conditions, and Pattern C is used for imaginary conditions. Pattern A uses present tense in the if-clause and future tense in the main clause. Pattern B uses past tense in the if-clause and would/should + verb in the main clause. Pattern C uses past perfect in the if-clause and perfect conditional ("would have" + past participle) in the main clause.
Coclustering Base Classification For Out Of Domain Documentslau
This document presents a co-clustering based classification algorithm (CoCC) for classifying documents from a related but different domain (out-of-domain documents) by utilizing labeled documents from another domain (in-domain documents). CoCC aims to simultaneously cluster out-of-domain documents and words to minimize the loss of mutual information, outperforming traditional supervised and semi-supervised algorithms. While CoCC achieved good performance, its time complexity can be inefficient due to the large number of word clusters. Future work will focus on speeding up the algorithm.
The document discusses Sweden's approach to releasing spectrum in the digital dividend for mobile broadband use. Sweden transitioned digital terrestrial television which freed up the 800 MHz band (790-862 MHz). The Swedish government then decided to vacate this spectrum and award it through an open, service-neutral licensing process between 2009-2010. Harmonizing the use of the 800 MHz band across Europe was seen as important for enabling economies of scale in both equipment and services.
The document discusses image processing research in Flanders. It notes that the Flemish government allocated 4.2 million Euros to support image processing research, which employs around 250 researchers. It then provides an overview of key areas of image processing research, including acquisition, transformation, analysis, and visualization of image data. Application areas discussed include biomedical imaging, remote sensing, and robot navigation.
Brokerage2006 independent living systemsimec.archive
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
This document summarizes a study that compares Belgian and Dutch e-commerce websites to investigate if cultural differences between the two countries are reflected online. The study analyzed 40 websites from each country across various sectors. Results found that Belgian websites reflected higher levels of power distance and masculinity compared to Dutch websites, as indicated by providing more company hierarchy information, depicting CEOs more frequently, and using superlatives and explicit comparisons more often. Contrary to expectations, Belgian websites did not reflect higher uncertainty avoidance. No significant differences were found in levels of collectivism reflected on the websites.
I Minds2009 Secure And Distributed Software Prof Wouter Joosen (Ibbt Distri...imec.archive
This document discusses secure and distributed software. It summarizes the security research expertise at IBBT-DistriNet, including secure programming languages, security middleware, cryptography, privacy technologies, and more. It highlights several research projects in security, such as PecMan which introduced a security service bus, Turbine on digital identity solutions, and HATS to develop advanced software validation tools. The document emphasizes the relevance of this security research given trends towards more distributed systems and growing privacy needs. It outlines IBBT-DistriNet's vision to be a leader in security research and its collaborations within Europe and Flanders.
The document outlines opportunities and challenges in e-Science. It discusses how e-Science relies on massive computing and large datasets to unify theory, experimentation, and simulation. This represents a major shift in research paradigms. However, challenges remain around organizing, mining, and understanding huge amounts of data. Scientists must also become experts in complex computing methods, taking away from their primary research. There is an opportunity for "here and now" business tools to help scientists focus on research instead of computing.
BEgrid is the Belgian grid for research providing 450 CPUs and 3 TB of storage. It currently has participants from several Belgian universities and research institutions and aims to grow its resources to 1000 CPUs by the end of the year. BEgrid connects to other grids through EGEE and Dutchgrid, allowing its researchers access to over 30,000 CPUs. It is certified for EGEE and participates in discussions around the future European Grid Infrastructure (EGI).
Modal verbs are used to change or complete the meaning of the main verb. They express concepts like ability, possibility, deduction, obligation, prohibition, and advice. Modal verbs don't use third person singular 's' and are followed by the basic form of another verb. They don't change spelling or have infinitives or participles. Negation uses 'not' rather than a form change. Examples are given for ability (can, could, be able to), possibility (may, might, could), deduction (must, can't), obligation (have to, must), prohibition (must not), and advice (should, ought to).
This document discusses videoconferencing tools and provides an overview of their advantages and technologies. It shares the IBBT community's experience with videoconferencing meetings based on an online survey. Tips are provided for both web-based videoconferencing using IM/VoIP software and dedicated systems like WebEx. Best practices for videoconferencing meetings are outlined from literature. Finally, future developments like the ICON iCoCoon system are briefly mentioned.
G-Flux creates smartphone applications that combine outdoor activities, GPS, and fun. They have developed a prototype Android app called BikeFlux that tracks cycling routes and activities. Going forward, they plan to continue developing new apps, find customers, and release beta versions on a monthly basis through their student-entrepreneurship venture.
This document discusses an interactive role playing activity called "We-BBT 2009" that aims to improve collaboration and interdisciplinary work in IBBT projects. The activity will simulate real-life challenges by assigning participants stereotypical researcher characters across different universities. Participants will work in teams to complete assignments while facing coordination, communication, and collaboration challenges. The activity aims to provide insight into improving tools like MyBBT to better support interdisciplinary collaboration within IBBT projects.
This document discusses adoption potential analysis and its importance in technology product development and introduction strategies. It provides three key reasons for conducting adoption potential analysis: 1) To understand the true market potential for an innovation, especially among slower technology adopters; 2) To determine the ideal product configuration to maximize potential; and 3) To identify the best introduction strategy to appeal to early adopters and unlock the larger market potential. The document advocates for adoption potential analysis to be a complementary tool that informs business modeling, user research, and new product development processes to create more user-driven and successful innovations.
There are three main types of conditional patterns in conditional sentences: Pattern A is used for probable conditions, Pattern B is used for improbable conditions, and Pattern C is used for imaginary conditions. Pattern A uses present tense in the if-clause and future tense in the main clause. Pattern B uses past tense in the if-clause and would/should + verb in the main clause. Pattern C uses past perfect in the if-clause and perfect conditional ("would have" + past participle) in the main clause.
Coclustering Base Classification For Out Of Domain Documentslau
This document presents a co-clustering based classification algorithm (CoCC) for classifying documents from a related but different domain (out-of-domain documents) by utilizing labeled documents from another domain (in-domain documents). CoCC aims to simultaneously cluster out-of-domain documents and words to minimize the loss of mutual information, outperforming traditional supervised and semi-supervised algorithms. While CoCC achieved good performance, its time complexity can be inefficient due to the large number of word clusters. Future work will focus on speeding up the algorithm.
The document discusses Sweden's approach to releasing spectrum in the digital dividend for mobile broadband use. Sweden transitioned digital terrestrial television which freed up the 800 MHz band (790-862 MHz). The Swedish government then decided to vacate this spectrum and award it through an open, service-neutral licensing process between 2009-2010. Harmonizing the use of the 800 MHz band across Europe was seen as important for enabling economies of scale in both equipment and services.
The document discusses image processing research in Flanders. It notes that the Flemish government allocated 4.2 million Euros to support image processing research, which employs around 250 researchers. It then provides an overview of key areas of image processing research, including acquisition, transformation, analysis, and visualization of image data. Application areas discussed include biomedical imaging, remote sensing, and robot navigation.
Verandering in cultuur is een lastig onderwerp binnen de zorg in Nederland. De verschillende teams binnen zorginstelling maken dit niet makkelijk. Lean Six Sigma kan een handig hulpmiddel zijn om inzet te krijgen in de verschillende (zorg) processen waardoor een cultuurverandering mogelijk kan worden.
Presentatie t.b.v. WZO-overleg: samenwerking tussen wonen-zorg-welzijn. De stand van zaken over de ontwikkelingen in de wijk: 3d's, wijkgerichte zorg en ondersteuning.
The document discusses a living lab for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to involve users in the product development process from an early stage. Some key benefits mentioned include detecting unintended problems or opportunities through active user involvement, conducting multi-method research to enrich products academically, and allowing technologies to be domesticated by users rather than just consumed. The living lab offers services to SMEs to help fast track the process from ideation to demonstration through co-creation with various user types and extra funding and support opportunities.
This document discusses the iterative process of co-creating an ontology with stakeholders. Researchers conducted contextual inquiries through documentation analysis, observations, and interviews across multiple healthcare sites. Scenarios were developed and used in workshops with various stakeholders including medical professionals, engineers, and social scientists. The workshops introduced ontologies and involved role playing, decision making, and concept evaluation. A proof of concept was developed using a personal electronic device to demonstrate the ontology. The document reflects on further refining the process and developing the research.
PRoF is a living lab that builds very life-like environments using state-of-the-art products to enable early testing and concept validation. It provides an ecosystem for innovation and business across companies, academia, users, and care actors. PRoF has a long history of collaboration and has had a big impact on innovation in healthcare.
Results of the Apollon pilot in homecare and independent livingimec.archive
The document summarizes the results of the Apollon pilot project evaluating the use of living lab networks for testing homecare and independent living services across borders. The pilot involved transferring three such services between four living labs in different countries. A key finding was that a common cross-border ecosystem model for living labs in healthcare was not feasible due to differences between countries in areas like value networks, organization of healthcare, regulations, and infrastructure. However, living labs could still effectively serve as brokers and matchmakers to enable cross-border collaboration by addressing issues around stakeholders, access to users, liability, ethics, rules, and safety. Based on this pilot, the document advocates for a domain-specific network of smart care living labs to facilitate knowledge
Delivery of feedback on Health, Home Security and Home Energy in Aware Homes ...imec.archive
This document discusses the CASALA Living Lab, which conducts research on delivering feedback to users about their health, home security, and energy usage using sensors in ambient assisted living homes. The CASALA Living Lab has multiple stages, including virtual environments, a facility called Great Northern Haven with over 2,000 sensors collecting data from 16 apartments, and community deployments. The lab aims to understand user behavior from real-world data and provide feedback to empower users. Challenges include lack of market awareness for ambient assisted living and siloed funding, while successes involve end-user involvement and driving education and adoption of these technologies.
The document describes the Emmanuel Haven Living Lab located in Motherwell, South Africa. The Living Lab was established to provide prevention, treatment, care and support to communities impacted by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and diabetes. It aims to mitigate the health, psychological and socio-economic effects of these diseases through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and community programs. Some of its initiatives include using mobile technologies to enable home-based care, nutritional education, and skills development for disabled community members. The Living Lab faces challenges such as lack of infrastructure, connectivity and access issues, as well as social challenges like poverty and low literacy levels in the community.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
Health-Lab Amsterdam is a living lab platform focused on testing and improving ICT and healthcare solutions together with users. It has three dimensions: 1) a platform where people can meet and discuss new care solutions, 2) living labs where solutions can be tested with users, and 3) new educational programs focused on implementing solutions. The living lab has apartments equipped with sensors to study user needs, concepts, and acceptance of new solutions. Students from various fields participate in minors to learn about digital health and intelligent environments.
The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is a non-profit international association representing over 300 certified Living Labs across Europe. Living Labs are real-life test environments where users and producers co-create innovations. ENoLL was launched in 2006 and supports various EU initiatives related to aging well, smart cities, and future internet technologies by facilitating partnerships between its member Living Labs. ENoLL is committed to the EU Active and Assisted Living Program and plans workshops and projects to promote interoperability and gather evidence on independent living solutions.
This document summarizes the process and outcomes of the 6th Wave of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL). It describes how 72 proposals were submitted and evaluated by 6 teams against 20 criteria on a scale of 0-5. 46 Living Labs were ultimately selected, including 31 from EU countries and 15 non-EU members. The document provides details on the evaluation phases and typical weaknesses seen in applications. It concludes by welcoming the new members and thanking those involved in the evaluation process.
The Connected Smart Cities Network and Living Labs - Towards Horizon 2020 - K...imec.archive
The document discusses how EU Cohesion Policy supports innovation, particularly through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). It provides an overview of how over €86 billion was spent on research and innovation during 2007-2013 to build research capacity and infrastructure in all regions. For 2014-2020, there will be a thematic focus on research and innovation, ICT, and SME competitiveness to maximize impact. Regions will develop research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation to concentrate resources on competitive advantages. Synergies between Cohesion Policy and Horizon 2020 are aimed at supporting research and innovation from the idea stage to market.
Apollon-23/05/2012-9u30- Parallell session: Living Labs added value imec.archive
1) Living labs provide meeting places for research, development, and innovation where companies, researchers, specialists, teachers, students, and product users collaborate.
2) Demola is an innovation platform that combines student ideas with needs and support from project partners and customers, turning ideas into product and service demos.
3) Benefits of Demola include real market potential for projects, valuable experience for students, opportunity for students to start their own businesses, and license agreements or partnerships between students and project partners.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 11:30 - Local SME's - Innovating Across bordersimec.archive
This document outlines a methodology for setting up and operating cross-border networks of living labs to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with innovation. It describes a multi-phase process including connecting partners, planning projects, supporting experimentation, and evaluating results. A variety of methods and tools were developed and validated through pilot projects in different domains like healthcare, energy efficiency, and manufacturing. These methods and tools are accessible through an online knowledge center to facilitate cross-border collaboration between living labs.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 16:00 - Smart Open Cities and the Future Internetimec.archive
The document discusses Lisbon's efforts to become a smarter city through open innovation and citizen participation. It outlines challenges like economic issues but also opportunities from new technologies. Lisbon is promoting spaces and tools for public involvement, including participatory budgeting, living labs, open data, and co-working areas. It also supports entrepreneurship through initiatives like Lx Startup, Fab Lab, and Lx Academy. The city is investing in sustainable mobility and renewable energy programs. Overall, the goal is to engage citizens in developing solutions and make Lisbon a center for creativity, business, and green technology.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 16:00 - Smart Open Cities and the Future Internetimec.archive
The document summarizes a presentation on smart cities as innovation ecosystems sustained by the future internet. Some key points:
1) Smart cities are not yet a reality, but rather an urban development strategy and vision focused on empowering citizens and creating an "urban innovation ecology."
2) The FIREBALL project aims to bring together cities, living labs, and future internet stakeholders to explore how open innovation and user participation can support experimentation and adoption of future internet technologies.
3) Case studies of smarter cities show examples of technology districts, living lab initiatives, infrastructure development, and efforts to engage citizens. However, challenges remain around skills gaps, funding, and measuring impact.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 16:00 - Smart Open Cities and the Future Internetimec.archive
The document describes an open data app challenge organized by Open Cities. It invites developers to create apps using European open data sources that solve citizen issues. The challenge runs from February to November 2012, with a submission period in August-September and finals at the Smart City Expo in November. Top prizes include €5,000 for first place. The goal is to promote open data apps and make city living easier through collaboration across Europe.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 16:00 - Smart Open Cities and the Future Internetimec.archive
The document describes open data platforms and sensor network platforms created by the Open Cities project. It discusses how the platforms provide open data and sensor data from multiple cities through common interfaces and tools. This allows developers to more easily access and build applications using the urban data. The platforms have seen increasing use, with thousands of data sets accessed from cities across Europe. Support is provided to developers through tutorials, code samples and documentation to help them create innovative apps using the open data.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 11:30 - Local SME's - Innovating Across bordersimec.archive
This document discusses the transition of a large living lab called i-City in Flanders into a spin-off MVNO business. It summarizes that i-City started as a wireless city project with over 500 hotspots and 2000 test users. Some of the alfa community members who received support went on to work for the founding companies. The spin-off took the community-focused approach of i-City and applies it to their MVNO business, which has grown to over 120,000 users through testing with focus groups and an open API. The plans are to expand the business model to other European countries using the same approach of building, testing, and rebuilding with community input.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 09:00 - User-driven Open Innovation Ecosystemsimec.archive
The document discusses the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), which connects over 320 Living Labs across Europe and globally. Living Labs are open innovation ecosystems that engage stakeholders to address societal challenges through user-driven collaboration. ENoLL supports its members through events, projects and services. It also works to expand globally through partnerships and regional networks. The Connected Smart Cities Network was launched to facilitate collaboration between cities on developing smart city solutions using Living Labs approaches.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 09:00 - User-driven Open Innovation Ecosystemsimec.archive
1) The FIREBALL project coordinates and aligns approaches between future internet research, experimentation testbeds, and user-driven open innovation to promote innovation in smart cities.
2) Smart cities require three components: cities/communities to define challenges, living labs as generators of solutions developed with citizen involvement, and internet technologies as facilitators of communication and information processing.
3) Key FIREBALL activities include developing a smart city vision and cases, building smart city innovation ecosystems and networks, and coordinating medium to long term future internet research with short to medium term applied research and large scale experimentation.
Apollon - 22/5/12 - 09:00 - User-driven Open Innovation Ecosystems
08 Afsluitevent Transecare
1. Slotevent TranseCare 2010
Slotdiscussie:
Wat zijn prioriteiten voor toekomstig
onderzoek rond wonen en zorg?
Prof. Dr. An Jacobs,
IBBT‐SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2. Uitdagingen volgens ons
• Verder testen
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– Technologische haalbaarheid op grotere schaal
TranseCare
– Meervoudige demonstraHemodellen
• uiIesten organisaHemodellen, betaalbaarheid,
inpasbaarheid in dagelijks leven
3. Doelnetwerk
Familie en vrienden
Vrijwilligers
Mantelzorgers
ZorgaLankelijke ouderen
Professionele zorgverleners
4. Woon‐zorg decreet 2009
als nieuwe krijtlijnen
• OpHmaliseren van vrijwilligerswerk en
mantelzorg, naargelang draagkracht
• Samenwerking tussen zorgverstrekking
verbeteren, uitwisseling van gegevens
• Sociale netwerkvorming sHmuleren
