Andreas Kornherr, Mondi, Ulmerfeld-Hausmening, Austria
From flirt to innovation
How to establish network ties between science and industry
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TRLabs is a not-for-profit research consortium established in 1986 in Edmonton, Alberta. It facilitates economic development through applied research, prototype development, technology demonstrations, and assisting with commercialization. TRLabs has a $13 million annual budget from government, academic, and industry members. It focuses its research on areas like connected media, eHome, eHealth, and emerging technologies. TRLabs also runs the Disruptive Technology Challenge which provides $100,000 annually to support disruptive innovation projects led by university faculty and students.
The document discusses RUSNANO, the Russian state corporation established to commercialize nanotechnology and build nanotechnology infrastructure in Russia. It was reorganized in 2011 into an open joint-stock company (RUSNANO) and a non-commercial fund (Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs). RUSNANO invests in commercial nanotechnology projects, while the Fund focuses on building innovation infrastructure through nanotechnology centers, educational programs, and international forums like RUSNANOTECH. RUSNANO has invested in over 100 projects across industries like solar energy, biotechnology, electronics and more.
Presentation made by Caroline Gray-Stephens, Head of Enterprise Europe Network - Scotland (EEN-Scotland) at BIP Asia 2012 hosted by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (7 December 2012)
Presentation made by Caroline Gray-Stephens, Head of Enterprise Europe Network-Scotland at BIP Asia 2012 hosted by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), 7 December 2012.
An experience for inter-cooperation and knowledge exchange within country-of-...Berrbizne Urzelai
This document provides an agenda and background for a PhD research project analyzing knowledge exchange within a network of subsidiaries from the same country located in an industrial park in China. The research aims to study how the social capital dimensions of the subsidiary network affect knowledge acquisition and sharing. The theoretical framework draws from international business theories on multinational networks and knowledge flows between headquarters and subsidiaries.
Gregor Radonjič | Ali obstajajo za okolje primerni proizvodi
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TRLabs is a not-for-profit research consortium established in 1986 in Edmonton, Alberta. It facilitates economic development through applied research, prototype development, technology demonstrations, and assisting with commercialization. TRLabs has a $13 million annual budget from government, academic, and industry members. It focuses its research on areas like connected media, eHome, eHealth, and emerging technologies. TRLabs also runs the Disruptive Technology Challenge which provides $100,000 annually to support disruptive innovation projects led by university faculty and students.
The document discusses RUSNANO, the Russian state corporation established to commercialize nanotechnology and build nanotechnology infrastructure in Russia. It was reorganized in 2011 into an open joint-stock company (RUSNANO) and a non-commercial fund (Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs). RUSNANO invests in commercial nanotechnology projects, while the Fund focuses on building innovation infrastructure through nanotechnology centers, educational programs, and international forums like RUSNANOTECH. RUSNANO has invested in over 100 projects across industries like solar energy, biotechnology, electronics and more.
Presentation made by Caroline Gray-Stephens, Head of Enterprise Europe Network - Scotland (EEN-Scotland) at BIP Asia 2012 hosted by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (7 December 2012)
Presentation made by Caroline Gray-Stephens, Head of Enterprise Europe Network-Scotland at BIP Asia 2012 hosted by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), 7 December 2012.
An experience for inter-cooperation and knowledge exchange within country-of-...Berrbizne Urzelai
This document provides an agenda and background for a PhD research project analyzing knowledge exchange within a network of subsidiaries from the same country located in an industrial park in China. The research aims to study how the social capital dimensions of the subsidiary network affect knowledge acquisition and sharing. The theoretical framework draws from international business theories on multinational networks and knowledge flows between headquarters and subsidiaries.
Gregor Radonjič | Ali obstajajo za okolje primerni proizvodi
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Domen Mongus | Aritmetika oblik: skriti vzorci v oblakih točk
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La Administración General de Aduanas es la autoridad competente en México responsable de aplicar la legislación aduanera y regular el despacho de mercancías de comercio exterior. Está integrada por varias administraciones centrales y supervisa aduanas en todo México. Determina impuestos a la importación y exportación de acuerdo con la ley, y se encarga de verificar mercancías en transporte y vehículos procedentes del extranjero.
horizontal and vertical integration of supply chainNUML lahore
Nestle is the world's largest food and beverage company, founded in Switzerland in 1866. It has grown significantly through mergers and acquisitions, including a 1905 merger with Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk that added chocolate to its product line. Nestle employs over 280,000 people worldwide and uses vertical and horizontal integration in its supply chain management.
Vertical and horizontal cooperation in a Supply Chainuapippo
This document discusses strategic issues in supply chain management, focusing on vertical and horizontal cooperation. It defines cooperation as collaboration between independent companies to increase competitiveness. Vertical cooperation involves different stages of the value chain working together, while horizontal cooperation is between companies in the same industry and stage. Examples discussed include Toyota's supplier relationships and Starbucks' backward integration into coffee farming. Both cooperation and integration are presented as strategic approaches for companies to meet challenges of globalization.
SciTree is a web platform proposed by Elena Kalmykova and John Noel M. Viaña to facilitate collaboration between scientists and investors by allowing scientists to post short summaries of their research and technologies for investors to view, in order to help connect scientific discoveries with potential commercial applications and funding. The platform aims to address inefficiencies in the current system where scientists spend much of their time writing lengthy academic papers that are inaccessible to non-scientists, and investors struggle to learn about promising new technologies from lesser known regions. SciTree would function as a marketplace connecting the scientific community with companies and investors seeking to license and commercialize new technologies.
The document summarizes a proposed online platform called SciTree that aims to connect scientists and investors. SciTree would allow scientists to post short summaries of their research and technologies, and enable investors to search for potential investment opportunities. This would help fill the current gap between scientific research and business/investment. The founders believe SciTree could be a global outsourcing platform for research and development, matching scientists and technologies with interested companies.
Accelerate Trust Building to UInleash Innovation. Early results from the Innovation Ecosystems Network showing networks of executive women in technology-based businesses, investments into and out of China, and emerging globalization of Norwegian technology-based businesses in the information technology sector. Lecture by Martha Russell, of Media X at Stanford University.
“Knowledge Across Borders: Accelerate Building Trust to Unleash Innovation” - A presentation given by Dr. Martha Russell in Business Institute, Olso, Norway on October 7, 2010.
Cooperation Issues In Developing The BOP Market - AMCISAnand Sheombar
The basic argument of this paper is that successful contribution of ICT to development goals is partly dependent on the nature of the cooperation between partners. Thus if there is a need to assess the contribution of ICT, then one needs to look further than just the basic quantitative measures and include cooperation issues as criteria for success. The purpose of the research reported in this paper was therefore to take one step closer towards a framework of cooperation issues in so-called BOP projects, specifically in the ICT arena, with the ultimate aim of developing a way to assess factors that may present a risk to the success of these projects. This framework could serve as the foundation for further research into developing a diagnostic instrument for this purpose.
Presentation by Gilbert Silvius for paper "Cooperation issues in developing the BOP market", AMCIS Proceedings , San Francisco, USA, August 2009.
Lecture 10 - Innovation studies and technology policyUNU.MERIT
This document discusses innovation policy, providing definitions and discussing trends over time. It covers the main objectives of innovation policy as promoting new products, services, and processes in markets and organizations. Innovation policy aims to impact economic performance and social cohesion. The document also outlines various policy instruments and trends in innovation policy from the 1960s to the 1990s, including a shift towards an innovation-driven economy.
This document discusses a SWOT analysis for implementing business analysis work offshore. It lists strengths like lower costs and weaknesses like communication barriers. Opportunities include accessing new markets, and threats include loss of stakeholder engagement. A PESTLE analysis covers political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors. A customer journey map outlines expectations of end users, business stakeholders, and colleagues for offshore analysis work. Touchpoints and moments of truth are also examined.
Collaboration in R&D: The Emerging Frontiers of InnovationJose Claudio Terra
The paper examines the growing diversity of sources and the global possibilities for research and development. It reviews the international experience of collaborative innovation in corporations, universities and the public sector.
www.terraforum.com.br
hcid2011 - RED: a multi-disciplinary approach to experience design - Jarnail ...City University London
This document discusses a multi-disciplinary approach called RED (Research, Envision, Design) for experience design. It emphasizes hypothesis-driven research, capability modeling, and scenario planning to envision solutions. The design process involves concept and product design, workload definition, and user-centered and comparative design. Delivery focuses on proof of concepts, vision demonstrators, and investment cases. Examples discussed include an assisted living innovation platform and projects helping organizations promote digital literacy and envision breakthrough customer experiences.
The document discusses higher education, innovation, and industry perspectives. It notes that the ways of doing business and achieving success are changing. Universities can play roles in alternative growth pathways through education, adding to knowledge, problem solving capacity, and open conversations. Effective university-industry partnerships and capacity building are important for innovation but remain fragmented. Collaboration between government, universities, and industry is essential for innovation in the modern globalized economy.
Great strides have happened at universities to cultivate entrepreneurs, and regions have developed stronger programs for collaborating with their higher education institutions to launch ventures. However, measurement and tracking of these economic development programs still lags the myriad approaches to starting new ventures. This delay may be attributed in part to continued reliance on traditional measurement methods for economic development performance within entrepreneurial ecosystems that are not structured to produce traditional results. This session presents new perspectives on the challenges of university-based entrepreneurship within regional economic systems and suggests new approaches to measuring and managing new venture creation.
The document discusses using open innovation and open technology search tools to identify solutions from external sources that can help companies out-innovate their competition. It emphasizes searching globally for unexpected solutions and partnerships from sources outside typical networks, including small companies, universities, research labs, and individuals. The goal is to gain access to external assets, competencies, and ideas that can help large organizations innovate and address changing customer needs in new ways.
The presentation illustrates a novel model for collaborative crowdsourcing and other collaborative environments where IPR tracking and protection constitutes a key issue. After a comparison between different approaches for innovation and R&D, the new architecture is introduced, with a focus on problem solving activities. Particular attention is given to the relationships (scientific, social, economical, legal) between firms and participants to the sessions and among participants themselves. The study also investigates the complex IPR framework necessary to involve firms and to promote users’ participation exploiting simultaneously collaboration and meritocracy. The paper also presents an original software application tool for tracing and tracking the IPR generated in collaborative and Open Innovation environments. The software’s use and results are demonstrated through a case study.
The document provides an overview of a study on Thailand's automotive industry in 2022 conducted through an industry intelligence approach. It involved an online Delphi study with local industry experts to develop and assess projections regarding Thailand's political, economic, and industry environment. Experts evaluated projections on their probability and impact. There was strong consensus that Thailand will likely implement international vehicle standards by 2022 but moderate dissent on emissions regulations being the same as Europe. Free trade agreements between Thailand/ASEC and Europe/EC were seen as likely but with moderate dissent. Local parts suppliers supplying over 85% of components also saw strong dissent.
Domen Mongus | Aritmetika oblik: skriti vzorci v oblakih točk
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Vojko Pogačar | Ali že obstaja jezik barv
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Domen Mongus | Aritmetika oblik: skriti vzorci v oblakih točk
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La Administración General de Aduanas es la autoridad competente en México responsable de aplicar la legislación aduanera y regular el despacho de mercancías de comercio exterior. Está integrada por varias administraciones centrales y supervisa aduanas en todo México. Determina impuestos a la importación y exportación de acuerdo con la ley, y se encarga de verificar mercancías en transporte y vehículos procedentes del extranjero.
horizontal and vertical integration of supply chainNUML lahore
Nestle is the world's largest food and beverage company, founded in Switzerland in 1866. It has grown significantly through mergers and acquisitions, including a 1905 merger with Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk that added chocolate to its product line. Nestle employs over 280,000 people worldwide and uses vertical and horizontal integration in its supply chain management.
Vertical and horizontal cooperation in a Supply Chainuapippo
This document discusses strategic issues in supply chain management, focusing on vertical and horizontal cooperation. It defines cooperation as collaboration between independent companies to increase competitiveness. Vertical cooperation involves different stages of the value chain working together, while horizontal cooperation is between companies in the same industry and stage. Examples discussed include Toyota's supplier relationships and Starbucks' backward integration into coffee farming. Both cooperation and integration are presented as strategic approaches for companies to meet challenges of globalization.
SciTree is a web platform proposed by Elena Kalmykova and John Noel M. Viaña to facilitate collaboration between scientists and investors by allowing scientists to post short summaries of their research and technologies for investors to view, in order to help connect scientific discoveries with potential commercial applications and funding. The platform aims to address inefficiencies in the current system where scientists spend much of their time writing lengthy academic papers that are inaccessible to non-scientists, and investors struggle to learn about promising new technologies from lesser known regions. SciTree would function as a marketplace connecting the scientific community with companies and investors seeking to license and commercialize new technologies.
The document summarizes a proposed online platform called SciTree that aims to connect scientists and investors. SciTree would allow scientists to post short summaries of their research and technologies, and enable investors to search for potential investment opportunities. This would help fill the current gap between scientific research and business/investment. The founders believe SciTree could be a global outsourcing platform for research and development, matching scientists and technologies with interested companies.
Accelerate Trust Building to UInleash Innovation. Early results from the Innovation Ecosystems Network showing networks of executive women in technology-based businesses, investments into and out of China, and emerging globalization of Norwegian technology-based businesses in the information technology sector. Lecture by Martha Russell, of Media X at Stanford University.
“Knowledge Across Borders: Accelerate Building Trust to Unleash Innovation” - A presentation given by Dr. Martha Russell in Business Institute, Olso, Norway on October 7, 2010.
Cooperation Issues In Developing The BOP Market - AMCISAnand Sheombar
The basic argument of this paper is that successful contribution of ICT to development goals is partly dependent on the nature of the cooperation between partners. Thus if there is a need to assess the contribution of ICT, then one needs to look further than just the basic quantitative measures and include cooperation issues as criteria for success. The purpose of the research reported in this paper was therefore to take one step closer towards a framework of cooperation issues in so-called BOP projects, specifically in the ICT arena, with the ultimate aim of developing a way to assess factors that may present a risk to the success of these projects. This framework could serve as the foundation for further research into developing a diagnostic instrument for this purpose.
Presentation by Gilbert Silvius for paper "Cooperation issues in developing the BOP market", AMCIS Proceedings , San Francisco, USA, August 2009.
Lecture 10 - Innovation studies and technology policyUNU.MERIT
This document discusses innovation policy, providing definitions and discussing trends over time. It covers the main objectives of innovation policy as promoting new products, services, and processes in markets and organizations. Innovation policy aims to impact economic performance and social cohesion. The document also outlines various policy instruments and trends in innovation policy from the 1960s to the 1990s, including a shift towards an innovation-driven economy.
This document discusses a SWOT analysis for implementing business analysis work offshore. It lists strengths like lower costs and weaknesses like communication barriers. Opportunities include accessing new markets, and threats include loss of stakeholder engagement. A PESTLE analysis covers political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors. A customer journey map outlines expectations of end users, business stakeholders, and colleagues for offshore analysis work. Touchpoints and moments of truth are also examined.
Collaboration in R&D: The Emerging Frontiers of InnovationJose Claudio Terra
The paper examines the growing diversity of sources and the global possibilities for research and development. It reviews the international experience of collaborative innovation in corporations, universities and the public sector.
www.terraforum.com.br
hcid2011 - RED: a multi-disciplinary approach to experience design - Jarnail ...City University London
This document discusses a multi-disciplinary approach called RED (Research, Envision, Design) for experience design. It emphasizes hypothesis-driven research, capability modeling, and scenario planning to envision solutions. The design process involves concept and product design, workload definition, and user-centered and comparative design. Delivery focuses on proof of concepts, vision demonstrators, and investment cases. Examples discussed include an assisted living innovation platform and projects helping organizations promote digital literacy and envision breakthrough customer experiences.
The document discusses higher education, innovation, and industry perspectives. It notes that the ways of doing business and achieving success are changing. Universities can play roles in alternative growth pathways through education, adding to knowledge, problem solving capacity, and open conversations. Effective university-industry partnerships and capacity building are important for innovation but remain fragmented. Collaboration between government, universities, and industry is essential for innovation in the modern globalized economy.
Great strides have happened at universities to cultivate entrepreneurs, and regions have developed stronger programs for collaborating with their higher education institutions to launch ventures. However, measurement and tracking of these economic development programs still lags the myriad approaches to starting new ventures. This delay may be attributed in part to continued reliance on traditional measurement methods for economic development performance within entrepreneurial ecosystems that are not structured to produce traditional results. This session presents new perspectives on the challenges of university-based entrepreneurship within regional economic systems and suggests new approaches to measuring and managing new venture creation.
The document discusses using open innovation and open technology search tools to identify solutions from external sources that can help companies out-innovate their competition. It emphasizes searching globally for unexpected solutions and partnerships from sources outside typical networks, including small companies, universities, research labs, and individuals. The goal is to gain access to external assets, competencies, and ideas that can help large organizations innovate and address changing customer needs in new ways.
The presentation illustrates a novel model for collaborative crowdsourcing and other collaborative environments where IPR tracking and protection constitutes a key issue. After a comparison between different approaches for innovation and R&D, the new architecture is introduced, with a focus on problem solving activities. Particular attention is given to the relationships (scientific, social, economical, legal) between firms and participants to the sessions and among participants themselves. The study also investigates the complex IPR framework necessary to involve firms and to promote users’ participation exploiting simultaneously collaboration and meritocracy. The paper also presents an original software application tool for tracing and tracking the IPR generated in collaborative and Open Innovation environments. The software’s use and results are demonstrated through a case study.
The document provides an overview of a study on Thailand's automotive industry in 2022 conducted through an industry intelligence approach. It involved an online Delphi study with local industry experts to develop and assess projections regarding Thailand's political, economic, and industry environment. Experts evaluated projections on their probability and impact. There was strong consensus that Thailand will likely implement international vehicle standards by 2022 but moderate dissent on emissions regulations being the same as Europe. Free trade agreements between Thailand/ASEC and Europe/EC were seen as likely but with moderate dissent. Local parts suppliers supplying over 85% of components also saw strong dissent.
Open Entrepreneurship_Teigland, Di Gangi, YetisRobin Teigland
Our presentation at the Innovation and Market Creation in and around Virtual Worlds in May 2012 at Copenhagen Business School. More information here: http://nordicworlds.net/2012/04/13/innovation-and-market-creation-in-and-around-virtual-worlds-2/.
InSites Consulting is a research firm that specializes in "Connected Research", which uses online tools to facilitate social interactions between research participants. This allows researchers to gain insights from organic consumer discussions and interactions. Connected Research aims to establish a more equal and participatory relationship between researchers and participants compared to traditional online research methods. The document provides examples of various online qualitative research techniques used in Connected Research, such as online discussion boards, communities, and groups that enable asynchronous or synchronous discussions. It also describes tools like user-coded open ends and user-created brainstorms that engage participants in analyzing and categorizing insights.
Alcacer & zhao 2009: Local R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role ...MOC2010
This study examines the role of internal linkages in allowing multi-location firms to leverage knowledge across sites for competitive advantage while minimizing risks from knowledge outflows to competitors. The study analyzes the global semiconductor industry from 1998-2001. It finds that when major firms locate near direct competitors, they are more likely to quickly internalize innovations through collaboration across locations, especially with their primary R&D sites. This allows them to benefit from knowledge spillovers in clusters without jeopardizing their technological edge. The results suggest internal linkages are important for firms to take advantage of opportunities in technology clusters.
The document discusses the evolution of innovation models from closed to open. It explains that in the past, companies relied solely on internal research and development, but that open innovation has become more important. Open innovation involves collaborating with external partners such as suppliers, customers, universities and more. This allows companies to access a wider range of ideas and expertise beyond their own walls. Some challenges of open innovation mentioned include changing company culture, managing partnerships and intellectual property issues. Overall open innovation is seen as key to innovation in many industries like food and drink where collaborations with suppliers, customers and consumers dominate the ecosystem.
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Andreja Kodrin | From Open Innovation towards Open Democracy
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A short reflection on Out of the Box Conference 2012.
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A short retrospective from the 2. anniversary of Out of the Box Seminars.
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Martin Balluch discusses the history and development of the modern animal rights movement from the 1960s onwards. Key events include the publication of books that helped establish an academic basis for animal rights philosophy. Grassroots direct action groups formed in opposition to hunting and later factory farming. National organizations focused on welfare reforms while grassroots groups advocated abolitionism and rights. Through campaigns targeting fur farms, animal circuses, battery cage farming and more, many countries have enacted legislative bans on certain uses of animals. However, the movement has also faced repression through new laws and investigations in countries like the US, UK, Spain and Austria.
OBC | The creative use of visual and spoken narrative to help people and poli...Out of The Box Seminar
Steven Bishop, University College London, UK
The creative use of visual and spoken narrative to help people and policy-makers understand our connected world
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OBC | String theory and quests for unification of fundamental forces of natureOut of The Box Seminar
Mirjam Cvetič, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
String theory and quests for unification of fundamental forces of nature
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The document discusses how Buddhist philosophy can provide insights for modern society. It argues that while modern civilization has achieved material advancement, it has failed to address inequality, injustice, and other social problems. It attributes this failure to an overemphasis on external factors and neglect of the inner world and mind. Buddhist philosophy focuses extensively on understanding the mind and mental factors that lead to suffering or happiness. Modern society could benefit from considering how to cultivate positive mental states like compassion through practices like meditation, and incorporating Buddhist psychological principles into areas like education and clinical research.
OBC | Omnipresent sensor systems - the pros and cons of monitoring almost eve...Out of The Box Seminar
Volker Ribitsch, University of Graz, Austria
Omnipresent sensor systems - the pros and cons of monitoring almost every aspect of our world – environment, processes, humans
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OBC | How to improve fundamental research in developing countries: UNESCO dip...Out of The Box Seminar
Dušan Repovš, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
How to improve fundamental research in developing countries:
UNESCO diploma program in mathematics and physics at ICTP
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OBC | About the Cultural Center of the European Space Technology-KSEVTOut of The Box Seminar
Dušan Petrač, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, USA
About the Cultural Center of the European Space Technology-KSEVT
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Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
“An Outlook of the Ongoing and Future Relationship between Blockchain Technologies and Process-aware Information Systems.” Invited talk at the joint workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS), co-located with with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), 3 June 2024, Limassol, Cyprus.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
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Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
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OBC | From flirt to innovation How to establish network ties between science and industry
1. From flirt to innovation
Andreas Kornherr & Gerhard Drexler
Research & Development
Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper
2. Agenda
Introduction to Mondi
Terms and Definitions
Flirting
Networks
Case studies
Discussion
3. Mondi Group
Mondi is an international paper and
packaging Group, with production
operations across 28 countries and about
23,400 employees.
Its key operations and interests are in
central Europe, Russia and South Africa.
The Group is involved in the manufacture
of packaging paper, converted packaging
products and uncoated fine paper.
4. Open Innovation
technologies, Front End Ideas from external
trends, markets sources, R&D
partner, suppliers,
literature,
conferences, etc.)
Development
external licenses &
know-how patents & licenses
external products
Market
existing market new market
6. Formation of collaborations
e.g. university – industry
high adaptability low
high
high
University-industry research projects
University research and collaborations, research
funded by contracts consortia, joint ventures (with public
or mixed public-private funding)
from industry,
uncertainty
complexity
academic consulting
high knowledge
appropriability University research
Research performed
within the firm with without industry
marginal or no university involvement, publicly
involvement funded
low
Low
high exclusivness low
Source: Rossi 2010 (mod.)
9. Guide to Flirting
A flirt is a (erotically) motivated approach between two persons
establishing a cursory contact without obligation.
“Flirting is a basic instinct, part of
human nature. This is not surprising: if
we did not initiate contact and express
interest in members of the opposite
sex, we would not progress to
reproduction, and the human species
would become extinct.”
Kate Fox
Social Issues Research Centre
10. Personal attitude for succesfull flirting
high
Degree of
Connectivity
community
small Degree of
Mar Sharing
kt personal
low high
Degree of Interactivity
Source: Peter Gloor / MIT / 2006
12. From weak to strong networks
Identification of possible partners
(congresses, literature, patents, internet,…)
Adjustments with roadmap
Clarification of additional competencies
Formation of weak bonds
(weak = meetings 1-2 times a year)
intensification of bonds
(strong = meetings several times a year, workshops)
Concrete project definition
Budgets and contracts
Public funding(s)
External technology user
Combination, subsitution of partners
14. Where do „weak“ relationships begin?
uncertainty
Early and longterm
relationships between
internal and external
researchers can -
depending on diversity What is
and specifity - lead to possible?
new perspectives and
ideas for the company.
5–10 J Can we make it?
„Weak“ relationships are Do we want to?
characterized by a high Implementation
number but low
frequency of contacts to 3–5 J
other persons. 1–2 J
ressources
Groenveld, 1997 (mod.)
20. Summary
Open Innovation is based on external collaboration
Different modes of collaboration
Networks form the basis of collaboration
The flirt – from weak to strong networks
Case studies relate networks to innovation
2 – mode networks
22. Looking forward to questions, comments, inputs …
Andreas Kornherr Gerhard Drexler
Andreas.Kornherr@mondigroup.com Gerhard.Drexler@mondigroup.com
Tel .+43 7475 500 - 5143 Tel.: +43 7475 500 - 5130
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