Abstract
The Competence Center ICT-SUD is carrying out an industrial research program, co-financed by the Calabria Region, aimed at building a digital ecosystem with some of its associate organizations for boosting technology transfer services. In particular, the program focuses on analysis, design, implementation and test of an innovative digital ecosystem architecture to effectively support complex business organizations involved in software applications development and distribution as well as service delivery. The digital ecosystem is meant to improve their production and organization processes, to increase their innovation levels and to reinforce their competitiveness, by enabling them to create business and social networks with partners, customers and research centers using the digital ecosystem. The first two steps of the program concern: (1) the analysis and specification of the innovation needs and requirements of the ICT-SUD’s industrial partners involved in the program, and (2) the set-up of a cooperative platform for enabling advanced social network features and knowledge discovery on the digital ecosystem. The paper presents some preliminary results of the above two steps.
This work has been developed by ICT-SUD within the framework of an investment contract, partially supported by Calabria Region and co-funded by ERDF and ESF 2007–2013.
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The Innovation Plan of the IC is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Training Plan is co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF).
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The Plan consists of 390 h of lesson provided to approximately 120 employees out of a total of about 645 people employed in the 21 companies involved.
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Note that the companies involved in the Project are not a representative sample of local firms for at least two reasons: (1) the number of surveyed firms is small; (2) the propensity for innovation of the member companies of the Competence Centre is above the average.
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Mallamaci, C.L., Saccà, D. (2012). Towards a Digital Ecosystem to Increase Effectiveness of Technology Transfer Services. In: De Marco, M., Te'eni, D., Albano, V., Za, S. (eds) Information Systems: Crossroads for Organization, Management, Accounting and Engineering. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2789-7_31
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