MFG Baden-Württemberg is a regional public innovation agency for ICT and media, based in the South-West of Germany. MFG’s mission is to support and foster the IT, media and related business sectors in the region of Baden-Württemberg. With its two main shareholders being a regional state ministry and the regional public broadcaster (SWR) MFG has now been active for nearly 15 years at the interplay of creativity and technology by fostering an interdisciplinary sector approach. This encompasses ICT, creative industries and IT application areas. MFG also hosts a variety of clusters and networks and delivers targeted services (ISO 9001 certified) in the area of innovation management, technology transfer and regional development and marketing.
MFG is also one of the founding members and chairs the European Interest Group on Creativity and Innovation e.V. (formally established in May 2010), a pan-European initiative of more than 30 regional and local development agencies, research institutions, companies and support organisations that foster the relationships between creativity, culture, technology and innovation.
Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (SRFG) (www.salzburgresearch.at) is the non-profit research organisation of the State of Salzburg. Salzburg Research specialises in applied research and development in the fields of information and communication technologies (ICT) and new media.
The main research and application areas of SRFG are innovation management, Internet technologies, knowledge and media management, intelligent mobility and e-health. SRFG has extensive experience in the co-operation of national and international projects. Its main strength lies in the successful interdisciplinary combination of different fields, ranging from technological research and development to socio-economic strategy and market research.
Salzburg Research runs an industrial competence center (Salzburg NewMediaLab – The Next Generation) and comprises the following research departments:
The research department responsible for SMARD is the Innovation Lab (iLab). The Innovation Lab offers interdisciplinary know-how (e.g. market and market potential analysis, innovation management) in the core areas of tourism, media education and culture.
IBBT (interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology) is an independent research institute, founded by the Flemish Government with the aim of stimulating ICT innovation. IBBT offers companies and organizations active support in research and development. It brings companies, authorities and non-profit organizations together to join forces on research projects. Both technical and non-technical issues are addressed within each of these projects.
IBBT is a virtual research institute in the form of a non-profit organization established under Belgian law. IBBT unites several research groups from different Flemish universities and research organizations that jointly perform research and development from within their own research institutes
(with each of them, IBBT has come to a framework agreement establishing the general rules regarding the participation of such research groups in the research and development activities of IBBT). IBBT performs the work via research group(s) and is one of these research groups.
For more information: http://www.ibbt.be/en
Founded in Turin in 1998, CSP-Innovazione nelle ICT is an Information and Communication Technology Research Centre, recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Scientific Research and engaged in industrial research and experimental development.
CSP is a nonprofit organisation aimed at transferring technology research results to the local area, PAs and local businesses. Itsshareholders include Regione Piemonte, CSI-Piemonte, Comune di Torino, Università degli Studi di Torino, Politecnico di Torino, Sisvel S.p.A., Unione Industriale Torino, IRIDE Energia S.p.A".
Most of CSP initiatives are carried out in collaboration with local Universities, within a series of research laboratories dedicated to the technology domains, such as Network and Media Convergence, The Internet of Things, Service Robotics, Man Machine Interaction, Wireless Communications. Moreover, CSP has been contributing since the 2004 to local Observatories about IT and Information Society at regional level, such as the PIEMONTE ICT OBSERVATORY and supports the RegionePiemonte, its main shareholder, in the definition of actions and policies in the Information Society field.
For more information: http://www.csp.it/