STI Research

Alexander Wahler (CEO)Lyndon Nixon (Senior Research Leader)

STI International Consulting und Research GmbH

Project portfolio

Data

Services

Mobile

Media

PlanetData(end Mar 2014)

SOFI(end May 2012)

SmartReality(end Sep 2012)

LinkedTV(end Apr 2015)

EUCLID(May 2012 –Apr 2014)

MediaMixer(Sep 2012 – Mar 2014)

BIG(Oct 2012 – Sept 2014)

ConnectMe(end May 2013)

Data Unit

• Data Unit Lead: Dieter Fensel• Current Projects: Planet Data, sti2.org• Upcoming Project: BIG• Team

– Birgit Leiter (Project Management, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Dissemination)

– Carmen Brenner (Web 2.0, Web 3.0)– Simeona Pelkvist (Dissemination)

Multimedia/Service Unit

• Multimedia/Service Unit Lead: Lyndon Nixon• Current Projects: LinkedTV, Smart Reality, SOFI,

EUCLID• Upcoming Project: MediaMixer• Team

– Elena Simperl (Senior Researcher Lead EUCLID)– Emilia Cimpian (Senior Researcher SOFI)– Matthias Bauer (Developer)– Dong Liu (Developer)– Ramtin Ghaseimpour-Yazdi (Innovation Manager)

Management Unit

• Management Unit Lead: Alexander Wahler• Activities: Project Management, Financials,

Administration, Commercialisation• Team

– Dana Zajic (Financials)– Alice Carpentier (Project Management)– Lejla Halilovic-Ibralic (Office Management - coming back

from maternity leave part time)

New: Commercialisation

• Innovation consultant in STI GmbH– Assessing with us the commercialisability of results– Bringing in industry contacts and advising on licensing and

IPR approach

• First stage: assessment. ConnectME and Watch‘n‘Buy (IPR of PU) were strongest (first) candidates

Commercialisation (2)• Currently pursuing IPR agreement with OU • Also found that the NoTube Beancounter is of

interest for commercialisation (open source Apache2 code)– Initial discussions with a company BLICC to provide a

customised version of the Beancounter– Seeking to drive internal Beancounter development within

LinkedTV project

Commercialisation (3)

• Next stage: virtual companies (each „idea“) with stakeholders for idea generation and business strategy development– Seekda as first strategic partner for research transfer

Current opportunities for IPR

• NoTube– Beancounter (shifting to LinkedTV)– Watch‘n‘Buy (with OU)

• ConnectME– Annotation tool– ConnectME framework

• SmartReality– SmartReality platform

Plans for 2013

• Projects– EU call 9 waiting on STREP submission result– EU call 10 (January 2013) v important to get at least 1 new

project

• Ramp up commercialisation– Generate new revenues via consultancy and software

customisation– IPR. Make the right decisions for licensing of results and

market them for sale/licensing to companies able to directly exploit them