Informatics Research Perspectives
Industry vs Academia
Cesare Pautasso
http://www.pautasso.info
[email protected]
@pautasso
University of Lugano (USI)
Faculty of Informatics
- Opened 2004
- 25 Professors
- 100+ PhD/Postdoc researchers
- Research: Software, Systems and Services Engineering
- Award-winning Innovative Teaching Curriculum
Architecture, Design and Web Information Systems Engineering
- BenchFlow - a benchmark for workflow management systems
- Liquid Web Streams and Liquid Software Architecture
- Fundamentals of Parallel Programming for Platform-as-a-Service Clouds
- ASQ - Interactive Scalable Lectures
- NaturalMash - Web Service Composition with Natural Language
IBM Zurich Research Lab
Boundaries
Opaque
Transparent
Motivation
Profit
Wisdom
External
Internal
IP
Intellectual
Ideas
Property
People
People
Professionals
Students
Interns
Post-docs
Organization
Brand Reputation
Corporate
Institutional
Personal
Collaboration
Local
Remote
Focused
Interdisciplinary
Top-Down
Bottom-Up
Consulting
Internal
External
Knowledge
Know-how
Know why
Standard
Original
Target Customer
Product
Team
Other
Academics
Patent
Lawyer
Scientific
Publishers
Valued
Clients
General
Public
Impact
Papers
Papers
Patents
Patents
Prototypes
People
Products
Startups
Acquire
Spin-off
Resources
High
Low
Funding Sources
Business
Taxpayers
EU
National
Funding Proposals
Cycle Time
Short Term
Long Term
<1 Year
3+ Years
Time Management
Priorities
- Patent Writing
- Fundraising
- Programming
- Experiments
- Meetings
- Talks
- Paper Writing
- Paper Reading
- Travel
- Conferences
- Reporting
- Consulting
- Teaching
- Reviewing
- Teaching
- Fundraising
- Advising
- Paper Writing
- Reviewing
- Paper Reading
- Meetings
- Travel
- Talks
- Conferences
- Programming
- Experiments
- Consulting
- Reporting
Transfer
References
- Matt Welsh, Your Field Guide to Industrial Research Labs, 21.1.2014
- Danah Boyd, am I an academic?, 25.8.2009
- Nick Feamster, Industry or Academia? A Counterpoint, 30.8.2013
- Ben Sheiderman, Toward an Ecological Model of Research and Development, The Atlantic, 23.4.2013
- Brian D. Wright, Kyriakos Drivas, Zhen Lei, Stephen A. Merrill, Technology transfer: Industry-funded academic inventions boost innovation, Nature, 507: 297–299, 19.3.2014
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