[ie-announce] New Report "Industry Funding for Academic Research in Informatics in Europe"

[Svetlana Tikhonenko]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to share with you our newest report “Industry Funding for 
Academic Research in Informatics in Europe” 
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/component/phocadownload/category/10-reports.html?download=98:industry-academia-funding-informatics-europe> 
prepared by Informatics Europe Data Collection and Reporting Working 
Group 
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/working-groups/data-collection-reporting.html>.

The report presents the results of a pilot study exploring the landscape 
of industry-funded Informatics research in academic institutions in 
Europe. Until now, no systematic study of the funding relation between 
industry and academia in Informatics has been reported in Europe and 
therefore no knowledge existed about which research areas receive more 
or less funding from industry. To fill this gap and understand better 
the industry funding landscape in Europe we conducted a pilot study 
including nine institutions, members of Informatics Europe, from four 
European countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and UK.

The results of this small scale study have shown that the institutions 
included together received close do 50 million EUR in funding from 
Industry along an average of three years per project. *Visualization, 
Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Ubiquitous Computing, Data 
Management Systems, Blockchain, Applied Computing for Life and Medical 
Sciences, Systems Security, Machine Learning and Architectures were the 
top ten funded fields receiving more than 70% of the total funding. Each 
of these research areas received above 1 Million EUR from industry 
during the whole period of funding reported.*

The report present a number of further interesting analysis  and 
comparisons, download it 
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/component/phocadownload/category/10-reports.html?download=98:industry-academia-funding-informatics-europe> 
for more details. We believe that the publication of the pilot study is 
a very important milestone and will certainly generate interest not only 
in the academic community but also in industry and funding organizations 
across Europe. Informatics Europe plans to scale up the pilot study to 
include a higher number of countries and institutions with the goal of 
producing  a fully pan-European picture of the industry funding for 
academic research in Europe.

For any further questions and comments about the report, please contact: 
Svetlana Tikhonenko <mailto:svetlana.tikhonenko at informatics-europe.org>.

Best wishes,

Svetlana Tikhonenko

*On behalf of the Informatics Europe Data Collection and Reporting 
Working Group*

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Svetlana Tikhonenko
Program Associate -
Web, Data and Analysis
Informatics Europe
Binzmühlestrasse 14/54
8050 Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 635 43 20
Office days: Mon/Tue/Thu

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