Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 1 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa Leonel Sousa Research Institute: Experience of Surviving Transferring Knowledge to Society

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 2 Outline INESC-ID: Who we are and our Mission General Indicators Revenues Technology transfer and start-ups

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 3 Brief history Research Institute established January Private Not-for Profit Institution of Public Interest Laboratório associado since December 2004 Two facilities –Alameda –Tagus Park Owned by IST and INESC Instituto Superior Técnico is the largest Portuguese engineering school INESC is a holding for a number of research institutes, technology transfer institutions and companies Origins of work date back to 1984, the start of INESC Electronics Information systems

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 4 Mission and activities Mission: develop tomorrow’s technologies by excelling in research, today Applied Research Basic Research Development Market

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 5 Position in the INESC group INESC Coimbra INESC Micro- systems and Nanotechnologies INESC PT Hld, PT C, CTT Public Universities Consulting 49%51%

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 6 Human resources

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 7 Five Internal Units Spoken Language Systems Information and Decision Support Systems Interactive Virtual Environments Embedded Electronic Systems Communication Networks and Mobility

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 8 20 Research Groups

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 9 Spoken Language Systems Semantic processing of multimedia contents –Computer enhanced human-to-human communication –Spoken dialogue systems and intelligent multimodal interfaces E-inclusion Speech-to-speech machine translation

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 10 Information and Decision Support Systems Internet technologies –Security in distributed systems –Software engineering –Distributed information systems –Algorithms and optimization Data mining and decision support systems –Business applications –Bioinformatics and other scientific applications

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 11 Interactive Virtual Environments Virtual, immersive environments –Military, security and safety applications –Distance learning Advanced computer interaction –Multimodal interfaces –Autonomous agents

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 12 Embedded Electronic Systems Computer aided design Computer architectures Reconfigurable computing Applications –Mixed mode circuits for communications –Digital chip design –FPGA based prototyping –GRIDs –Advanced imaging for medicine (PET) –Prosthetics for invisuals by direct cortex stimulation

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 13 Communications Networks and Mobility Fixed, mobile and adhoc networks –Broadband services –Network management –Applications over broadband networks –WAN, LAN and PAN technologies Quality of service in IP networks. –IP routing and traffic management –IP mobility Access and home networks Sensor networks

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 14 Main indicators Overall budget of ~4 M € / year 197 financed projets –National (101) –European and international (41) –Companies (49) –Internal (6) Since 2000 –2000 peer reviewed articles in international conferences and journals –90 PhD dissertations finished, in EE and CS –900 MSc and BSc dissertations –15 international conferences organized –18 patents –5 startups

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 15 Indicadores – Evolução Normalizada

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 16 Revenues and expenses We have low fix expenses –We have hired about 11 PhD full time researchers and 10 for adiministrative purposes –We DON’T pay the salary of professors that do research at INESC-ID We establish a third part agreement with Universities in an annual basis It is accepted by most of the EU programs as INESC-ID man power We pay back a fee to the University for each professor (50% of the time 5000€ per year) –We run the institute with overheads of16.6%

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 17 Revenues 4.1 Million Euros annual budget (excluding professor salaries)

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 18 Technology transfer? Patents Royalties Licenses Contracts Start-ups

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 19 Start-up equity Patents Royalties Licenses Contracts Start-ups

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 20 How much is an idea worth?

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 21 Solution: convert IPR into start-up equity

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 22 INESC-ID has equity in 5 start-ups

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 23 Coreworks Reconfigurable multimedia IP cores and subsystems

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 24 Coreworks capital stock

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 25 Coreworks Customers

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 26 VoiceInteraction

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 27 VoiceInteraction capital stock

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 28 VoiceInteraction Customers

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 29 PETsys

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 30 PETsys Capital Stock

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 31 Institutional Partners

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 32 NWC: Network Concept Integrated platforms for communication Network Concept

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 33 NWC Capital Stock

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 34 Silicongate Integrated Circuit Design Integrated Circuit Design Company Specialized in Analogue and Mixed-Signal IP.

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 35 NWC Capital Stock

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 36 Conclusions It is not the most ortodox way of doing it, but –with constrains and rules of organization of public institutes and universities in Portugal it is quite hard to do research and transfer knowledge It was difficult but we found a way to connect university with companies maintaing a high standard for researching –it is also not easy in small countries like Portugal We have achieved a level that it is hard to sustain the actual growing of activity without having professional management

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa technology from seed 37 technology from seed