Web Portal for IMT Providers
Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos - URENIO Research Unit
Portal a definition
Portals provide a secure, single point of
interaction with diverse information, business
processes, and people, personalized to a user's
needs and responsibilities.
Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos – URENIO Research Unit
Portal examples
Horizontal portals
Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com)
Excite (http://www.excite.cm)
MSN (http://www.msn.com)
Vertical portals
Business (http://www.business.com/) Business
Expedia (http://www.expedia.com/) Travel
Wine (http://www.wine.com) Food
elance (http://www.elance.com/) Services
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http://portal.urenio.org
Innovation portal of Central Macedonia
Information about all the organisations involved
in or contribute to the development of innovation
in the Region of Central Macedonia
• Information are organized on a sector base.
• Limited search capabilities
• On-line applications
• Lack of personalisation features
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Web Portal for IMT Providers
Main Objective
The activation of European companies in
Innovation applications through the facilitation in
reaching international expertise.
The promotion of local institutes that provide
IMT services in the VERITE partner and other
IRE network regions.
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Content
• Companies or institutions that provide
IMT services:
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Private companies
University Labs
Public Research Institutes
Public and private institutions and
authorities which are related to such
activities
– Etc.
• News - Events
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Source of information
• The VERITE partner institutes according to the
obligations arise from the local dissemination
plan.
• Relevant companies and institutes who would
like to be promoted.
The portal will be fully open to the public
and any interested company or institution
will be able to apply being listed through
the internet.
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Type of information (required)
Each entry will be described with a
minimum amount of information:
• Name
• Organization type (Company, Institute etc)
• Thematic Area
• Region
• Contact Details
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Type of information (optional)
• Short description
• Services
• Expertise
• Other contact details
• Keywords
• Official website address
• etc.
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Audience
• Local administration authorities.
• Manufacturing and other companies (potential
clients of the registered institutions).
• Research institutes who search for potential
partners for National and European Projects.
• People who search for a relevant job.
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Relation to other VERITE activities
• Technology Clinics
Searching technology providers
• Benchmarking
Search for companies for one to one
benchmarking
• Supply Chain Management and MRP
Search for relevant software apps providers
• New product development
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Classification scheme / user interface
Two types of classification
– per region/country
– per thematic area
Advance search using
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keywords
regional data
categories
Etc.
The users would be able to seek what they want
using integrated searching and browsing
interfaces that are both powerful and flexible.
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Content map
Greece
Spain
. . .
Italy
Benchmarking
IMT
Providers
IMT
Providers
IMT
Providers
IMT
Providers
MRP
IMT
Providers
IMT
Providers
IMT
Providers
IMT
Providers
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IMT
Providers
IMT
Providers
Technology Clinics
IMT
Providers
IMT
Providers
IMT
Providers
IMT
Providers
Supply Chain
Management
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IMT
Providers
Personalisation
Personalized content to a user's needs.
• Portal’s home page will be constructed from
various modules according to the user’s
profile (myportal).
• Email notification system.
• Use of cookies in order to the system
“remember” the user.
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Common design issues
The need for common design rises from the fact
that IMT’s Portal, Discussion Forum and
Knowledge Base will have approximately the
same audience.
Close cooperation between URENIO Research
Unit and GIB GmbH
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After the end of the project
Financial Support
• Private or public funding
• Advertising
• Subscribed users
• Listed companies will be able to pay for extra
information / visibility
The expansion of the portal is essential in
order the above model to be successful.
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Next steps
• 1st October 2002
Draft application
• 15 November 2002
Fully operational version
• Continuous upgrade throughout the project
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