Purpose This study aims to offer novel insights on how industrial marketing might contribute bringing innovations market in the peculiar case of health care. at shedding first light alignment between dissemination and exploitation activities developed by public–private partnerships funded European Commission (EC). Design/methodology/approach The theoretical development comes from an inductive r...

BACKGROUND Social innovations can contribute to health and wellbeing. PHIRE (Public Health Innovation and Research in Europe) investigated the impacts at national level of innovation projects funded by the European Union Public Health Programme. METHODS Through the European Public Health Association, experts assessed the uptake of the eight public health projects, for 30 European countries. T...

Two major projects in the U.S. and Europe have joined in a collaboration to work toward achieving interoperability among language resources. In the U.S., the project, Sustainable Interoperability for Language Technology (SILT) has been funded by the National Science Foundation under the INTEROP program, and in Europe, FLaReNet, Fostering Language Resources Network, has been funded by the Europe...

Drawing on more than eight years working to implement Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in the Human Brain Project, a large EU-funded research project that brings together neuroscience, computing, social sciences, humanities, one of largest investments RRI project, this article offers insights explores its possible future. We focus question how can have long-lasting impact persist beyon...

In this paper, we present BNCI Horizon 2020, an EU Coordination and Support Action (CSA) that will provide a roadmap for brain-computer interaction research for the next years, starting in 2013, and aiming at research efforts until 2020 and beyond. The project is a successor of the earlier EUfunded Future BNCI CSA that started in 2010 and produced a roadmap for a shorter time period. We present...

In the last few years an increasing number of very large, publicly funded, IT development projects have gained significant media attention due to cases of budget overrun, management problems or outright failure. Examples of such projects include the European Galileo, the German Toll Collect project, or the Australian Custom’s Integrated Cargo System (ICS). Further projects in an earlier lifecyc...

This paper presents in brief IS4ALL; an European Commission (EC)-funded project promoting and facilitating universal access in Health Telematics. IS4ALL is the successor of several efforts in the area of HCI aiming to advance the notion and practice of universal design in human computer interaction. Also, it constitutes an extension of the series of meetings and workshops held by the Internatio...

Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC) is a topic that can be approached from many different viewpoints. In this invited paper for the ETK/NTTS 2001 conference in Crete the users’ point of view is considered. To promote the results of the statistical projects under the Fourth Framework Programme of the European Union the AMRADS (Accompanying Measures in Research And Development in Statistics) pro...