The Short History IPP/HUT one man contribution on WWW based information sharing CERN’s VENUS-project on 3d product data visualization LHC-project and need to distribute information during the design and engineering process Initiation of the Tuovi-project, May 1995 as a Finnish acronym Tuovi stands for “Product Process Visualization” Spin-off in 1998, VC-backed start in 2000

TuoviWDM - Global Access to Information Tuovi stands for “Product Process Visualization”, used 32 man-years Provides unified access to engineering, administrative, library, production, maintenance databases Distributed project management support Joint R&D with Nokia, Valmet, Pöyry, ABB, Finnyards, Wärtsilä NSD Spin-off and VC-backed start in 2000

Manpower used altogether 39 people involved during 1995-99 22 short-term students of which 80% went in industry overall effort ~32 man-years 20% of funding from industry several industrial pilots

Tuovi software for physics data management Goal: Investigate use of Tuovi technology in managing various types of physics data Present the physicist a unified, fully configurable interface to all detector / technical / physics data Primary collaborator the CMS experiment, in particular the Crystal project collaboration agreement for 3 phase study

© Copyright agreement in 1996 CERN was granted a non-exclusive, permanent and irrevocable license to use the TuoviWDM free of charge, CERN has no liabilities whatsoever A modest measure of support was promised during the period while TuoviWDM was under development Ownership, rights of use and intellectual property rights of the software remained at HIP The question of serious customer support remained open and still is Some complication on disseminating the implication of the agreement within CERN CERN top-level support was essential

Lessons learned Unesco recommendation that university faculty members own their own inventions, CERN has not drawn direct policies on this Many scientists and administrators in science organizations are not supportive and often even adverse towards industrial applications and the business world Free flow of technology to existing industry and to emerging spin-off companies is a most important source of new high technology business in the countries participating in the science facilities Focus on intangible benefits

The volume…. In Europe, worth some 20 b$ of public money is annually spent on purchasing technology-oriented equipment from industry of which 2b$ are for inter-governmental, scientific research projects (EUR, Second European Report on S&T Indicators 1997. EUR 17639 EN, EC DGXII, Brussels, 1997.).