TINCA is a Transnational, Interactive Nano Competence Atlas that aims to provide an overview of players in the nanotechnology sector across multiple regions, including their competencies and applications. It utilizes a dedicated taxonomy to classify players, raw nanomaterials, intermediate products, end markets, value chains, and actors. The taxonomy is displayed on the Nanora website, where users can search for players by tags and refine their search. Feedback is requested to improve TINCA's taxonomy and search functions. The goal is to help users easily find relevant nanotechnology competencies and players across regions.

1. TINCA
Transnational, Interactive Nano Competence Altlas
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2. What is TINCA ?
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 Transnational: TINCA will regroup all competences in the partner regions
and is easily extendable.
 Interactive: Search and selection functions allow to easily combine search
functionnalities.
 Nano-Competence: Overview on players (industry, research center,...) with
nano-related competences (who can construct, who can measure, who can
test,...). Furthermore, TINCA also focuses on fields of application, etc.
 Atlas: Refers to the fact that the competences will be displayed in a
territorial context.

3. What is in TINCA ?
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Nanoplayers in each regions : Name, address, type of institution,...
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Associate technical keywords for each players...
For Example : SIRRIS :
Department or group: Nanomaterials
Liege Science Park, rue du Bois Saint-Jean, 12 - 4102-SERAING - Belgium (Wallonia)
Contact person (by web form) – website : http://wwww.sirris.be (link is external)
Industry sector: Chemistry and materials, Healthcare, Energy, Equipment engineering, Consumer
products
Category: Research (e.g. universities, research centers and institutes of technology)
Areas: Chemistry, Engineering mechanics, Optical communications engineering, Optoelectronics,
Sensor technology, Image processing, Fiber optics, Metrology, product development, microfabrication,
nano-ink, aerosol jet printing,...
Areas of expertise: Nanopowders synthesis and characterization, nano-composites, product
development, nano-ink, aerosol jet printing,

4. Keywords ???
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But keywords... Everyone has a different vocabulary, emphasis on details or on global
competence, each sector has specific terms for specific language,...
So we develop a dedicated TAXONOMY (from Ancient Greek: τάξις taxis, "arrangement,"
and -νομία -nomia, "method")
Best known taxonomy is the Biological classification

5. Biological Taxonomy
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6. Biological Taxonomy
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7. TINCA taxonomy specificities
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For nanotechnologies, at least in the frame of the NANORA project, we do not
need to be as exhaustive :
What we want is to help anyone to find any nanoplayer in any competence
pool in any of our regions !
We have then to take the "TINCA user" point of view... but who is the user ?
Someone searching a precise material, raw or manufactured ? Someone able
to describe it exactly or through its properties ? Someone searching if there
are nanomaterials usefull in its industry sector ?

8. NANORA Taxonomy
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From these point of view, we develop the taxonomy separating
the classification around a few "main nodes" :
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Raw Nanomaterials;
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Intermediate products;
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End Markets;
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Value chains
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Actors.
Even with this... Here is the result ( more details available on
the website)

9. TINCA Taxonomy
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10. TINCA Taxonomy (detail)
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11. TINCA Taxonomy (live)
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 TreePlus illustration

12. TINCA Taxonomy (live)
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 http://www.nanora.eu - Dynamic Taxonomy

13. TINCA Usage
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Concrete results for TINCA available on the Nanora website
● You can search for a nanoplayer with TINCA tags
● You can refine your serach (regions,...)
● You can look at the taxonomy and extend or refine your search
● You can look at the taxonomy and find related tags to extend or refine your search
using another point of view.

14. TINCA Usage (Live)
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 http://www.nanora.eu

15. TINCA Usage (Live)
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16. TINCA Usage (Live)
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17. TINCA Usage (Live)
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18. Next steps for TINCA?
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From our side :
 Improve taxonomy search page (soon) and Ergonomy
 Taxonomy graphical presentation
From your side :
 Use it and give us feedback
 Tags of your company : Please correct/complete/propose/refine
 Taxonomy in itself : New tags, links between tags, structure,...
 Any other proposal around this classification or tools that can be useful

19. TINCA
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Thanks for you attention !