Experiences of business collaboration in ICT research Airi Salminen University of Jyväskylä

The needs of business: support for ICT evolution support for building new ICT solutions new business ideas learning new technologies developing and learning best practices finding models for future development identifying further development needs identifying and understanding problems, needs and constraints for development understanding the complex domain

The needs of academia: support for ICT research need to learn about real-world problems and solutions need to produce academic theses need to produce high-level international publications

Business collaboration in ICT research

Funding Companies involved in research & development Public administration organizations involved in research & development The national technology agency TEKES Academy of Finland European Commission

Projects Metodi: methods for total document management in industry Funding: Tekes, Metso, Fortum, CSC, Honeywell, Solution Garden, MetaCASE Consulting inSGML: Methods for SGML/XML standardization in industry Funding : Tekes, Nokia, Metso, The Finnish Defence Forces, Tekla, iCALS Programme HyperSoft: Automated Hypertext Support for Software Maintenance Funding: Tekes, Nokia, KT-Tietokeskus, TietoEnator

Projects RASKE: Developing standards for structured documents Funding: Parliament of Finland, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Prime Minister’s Office, Academy of Finland, Tekes EULEGIS: European User Views to Legislative Information in Structured Form Partners: TT Tieto, Parliament of Finland, Ruotsin ja Norjan parlamentit, software companies from Belgium, Great Britain, and Spain Funding: EU telematics Application Programme AirXML: XML and Data Warehousing in Air Defence Funding: The Fish Air Force RASKE2: Methods for the Integration of Systems and Services in e- Government Funding: Parliament of Finlan, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice