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<p>Dear Colleagues, <br>
<br>
We are pleased to share with you our newest report <a
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href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/component/phocadownload/category/10-reports.html?download=98:industry-academia-funding-informatics-europe">“Industry
Funding for Academic Research in Informatics in Europe”</a>
prepared by Informatics Europe <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/working-groups/data-collection-reporting.html">Data
Collection and Reporting Working Group</a>.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.
<b>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.</b><br>
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The report present a number of further interesting analysis and
comparisons, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/component/phocadownload/category/10-reports.html?download=98:industry-academia-funding-informatics-europe">download
it</a> 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.<br>
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For any further questions and comments about the report, please
contact: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:svetlana.tikhonenko@informatics-europe.org">Svetlana
Tikhonenko</a>.<br>
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Best wishes,</p>
<p> Svetlana Tikhonenko</p>
<p><b>On behalf of the Informatics Europe Data Collection and
Reporting Working Group</b></p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">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</pre>
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