Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investiga

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Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e
Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em
Lisboahttp//www.inesc-id.pt
Research Institute Experience of Surviving
Transferring
Knowledge to Society

• Leonel Sousa

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Outline

• INESC-ID Who we are and our Mission
• General Indicators
• Revenues
• Technology transfer and start-ups

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Brief history

• Research Institute established January 2000.
• Private Not-for Profit Institution of Public
  Interest
• Laboratório associado since December 2004
• Two facilities
• Alameda
• Tagus Park
• Owned by IST and INESC
• Instituto Superior Técnico is the largest
  Portuguese engineering school
• INESC is a holding for a number of research
  institutes, technology transfer institutions and
  companies
• Origins of work date back to 1984, the start of
  INESC
• Electronics
• Information systems

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Mission and activities

• Mission develop tomorrows technologies by
  excelling in research, today

Basic Research
Applied Research
Development
Market
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Position in the INESC group
Public Universities
PT Hld, PT C, CTT
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Human resources
94 PhDs
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Five Internal Units

• Spoken Language Systems
• Information and Decision Support Systems
• Interactive Virtual Environments
• Embedded Electronic Systems
• Communication Networks and Mobility

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20 Research Groups
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Spoken Language Systems

• Semantic processing of multimedia contents
• Computer enhanced human-to-human communication
• Spoken dialogue systems and intelligent
  multimodal interfaces
• E-inclusion
• Speech-to-speech machine translation

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Information and Decision Support Systems

• Internet technologies
• Security in distributed systems
• Software engineering
• Distributed information systems
• Algorithms and optimization
• Data mining and decision support systems
• Business applications
• Bioinformatics and other scientific applications

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Interactive Virtual Environments

• Virtual, immersive environments
• Military, security and safety applications
• Distance learning
• Advanced computer interaction
• Multimodal interfaces
• Autonomous agents

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Embedded Electronic Systems

• Computer aided design
• Computer architectures
• Reconfigurable computing
• Applications
• Mixed mode circuits for communications
• Digital chip design
• FPGA based prototyping
• GRIDs
• Advanced imaging for medicine (PET)
• Prosthetics for invisuals by direct cortex
  stimulation

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Communications Networksand Mobility

• Fixed, mobile and adhoc networks
• Broadband services
• Network management
• Applications over broadband networks
• WAN, LAN and PAN technologies
• Quality of service in IP networks.
• IP routing and traffic management
• IP mobility
• Access and home networks
• Sensor networks

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Main indicators

• Overall budget of 4 M / year
• 197 financed projets
• National (101)
• European and international (41)
• Companies (49)
• Internal (6)
• Since 2000
• 2000 peer reviewed articles in international
  conferences and journals
• 90 PhD dissertations finished, in EE and CS
• 900 MSc and BSc dissertations
• 15 international conferences organized
• 18 patents
• 5 startups

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Indicadores Evolução Normalizada
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Revenues and expenses

• We have low fix expenses
• We have hired about 11 PhD full time researchers
  and 10 for adiministrative purposes
• We DONT pay the salary of professors that do
  research at INESC-ID
• We establish a third part agreement with
  Universities in an annual basis
• It is accepted by most of the EU programs as
  INESC-ID man power
• We pay back a fee to the University for each
  professor (50 of the time 5000 per year)
• We run the institute with overheads of16.6

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Revenues
4.1 Million Euros annual budget (excluding
professor salaries)

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Technology transfer?
Royalties
Patents
Contracts
Licenses
Start-ups
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Start-up equity
Royalties
Patents
Contracts
Licenses
Start-ups
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How much is an idea worth?
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Solution convert IPR into start-up equity
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INESC-ID has equity in 5 start-ups
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Coreworks
Reconfigurable multimediaIP cores and subsystems
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Coreworks capital stock
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Coreworks Customers
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VoiceInteraction
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VoiceInteraction capital stock
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VoiceInteraction Customers
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PETsys
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PETsys Capital Stock
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Institutional Partners
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NWC Network Concept Integrated platforms for
communication
Network Concept
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NWC Capital Stock
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SilicongateIntegrated Circuit Design
Integrated Circuit Design Company Specialized
in Analogue and Mixed-Signal IP.
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NWC Capital Stock
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Conclusions

• It is not the most ortodox way of doing it, but
• with constrains and rules of organization of
  public institutes and universities in Portugal
  it is quite hard to do research and transfer
  knowledge
• It was difficult but we found a way to connect
  university with companies maintaing a high
  standard for researching
• it is also not easy in small countries like
  Portugal
• We have achieved a level that it is hard to
  sustain the actual growing of activity without
  having professional management

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