Expert panel workshop

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Action plan for WP3 focus on industry-academia
links and knowledge management

• Elissaveta Gourova
• Kamelia Stefanova
• Dorina Kabakchieva
• Petko Ruskov

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Main topics

• WP3 objectives
• WP3 related needs of FMI staff
• WP3 main focus
• Interdisciplinary skills building
• Industry-academia challenges
• Knowledge management research

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WP3 objectives

• Strategic goal of WP3 Strengthening the
  innovation, technology transfer capacity and
  interdisciplinary skills of FMI staff, and FMI
  collaboration with partners outside the academic
  community
• Specific objectives
• strengthening the human resources capacity
• enhancing the collaboration with Bulgarian and
  foreign researchers from public institutions and
  industry
• exchange of knowledge and best practices
• strengthening the research environment
• expanding interdisciplinary education and training

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Activities to meet objectives

• providing guidance to PhD students and young
  researchers by experienced researchers from
  Bulgaria and EU partners for deepening their
  knowledge and advancing their studies on selected
  research issues
• providing training to PhD students, Post Docs and
  senior researchers for building interdisciplinary
  skills, for implementing research projects and
  communicating research results
• ensuring exchange of knowledge and experience
  with other Bulgarian and EU researchers through
  two-ways mobility, joint research workshops and
  participation at conferences
• improving the technology environment and the
  access to knowledge for FMI research, and PhD
  students in particular
• introducing new interdisciplinary courses at
  undergraduate, graduated and postgraduate levels

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FMI survey results
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Improving the research environment

• New technology
• PhD lab 15 PCs, server and network printer
• Software lab embedded systems equipment and
  software tools
• Access to information and knowledge
• Access to databases with on-line journals ACM
  and IEEE
• Delivery of scientific literature
• New research and educational tools

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Guidance to PhD students and young researchers

• Hiring new researchers
• PhD students
• Research fellows
• Supervision within SISTER
• Preparing individual research plans
• Ensuring supervisors from FMI and EU partners
• Exchange of knowledge
• Research seminars within SISTER
• Research workshops
• Collaborative tools

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Exchange of knowledge and experience

• Industry-academia collaboration
• Technology transfer institutions
• Business incubators
• Mobility patterns exchange of staff and
  internship
• Technology entrepreneurship and business patterns

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Research Areas

• Knowledge management
• Main technologies and techniques used
• Knowledge audit and measurement
• Organizational culture and knowledge sharing
• Practical cases
• Business Intelligence and Data Mining
• Study of Methods and Algorithms
• Analysis of Applications in the Finance, Business
  and Industry sectors
• Development of Case Studies describing successful
  implementations in BG companies

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Organization of research workshops/seminars

• Workshops
• Technology transfer and innovation in IT
• Information technology in business environment
• Information and knowledge management
• Business Intelligence and Data mining
• Research seminars
• Exchange of knowledge and best practices in
  e-business solutions
• Exchange of knowledge and best practices in IT
  management and innovation
• BI Methodologies and Applications
• Business Process Management and Innovation

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Organizing training seminars

• Project management and financing
• Knowledge management and technology transfer
• Research communication and IPR
• Fund raising and commercialization of research
  results

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Interdisciplinary courses

• Strengthening the MSc programme on Technology
  entrepreneurship and innovation in IT
• Ensuring internal capacity for research and
  teaching
• Strengthening the research and teaching skills of
  FMI staff
• Introducing new courses at BSc level

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Main EU partners

• CERTH, Greece networking in technology transfer
  and innovation, knowledge management, project
  management
• WESTBIC, Ireland networking in technology
  transfer and innovation, knowledge management,
  project management
• INTEL Education technology entrepreneurship
• University of Koblenz Landau, Germany
  networking in case studies writing, business
  intelligence, knowledge management
• UNINOVA, Portugal networking in business
  intelligence, knowledge management
• Southampton Solent University, UK networking in
  business intelligence, knowledge management
• Westminster Business School, London, UK Business
  Information, Management and Operations
• Athens University of Economics Business,
  Greece Management Science and Technology

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• Thank you for your attention!
• For contacts
• elis_at_fmi.uni-sofia.bg