Semantic Web Company GmbH was founded in 2000 and is a specialised software company which offers expertise in the areas of conception, implementation and maintenance of web based software systems. SWCs focus lies on web-based information management systems & community environments as well as on web-based (semantic web) components and web-services and on intelligent search mechanism by means of ontologies and thesauri. The focus of SWC’s research and development activities lies on web-based semantic components and in the fields of knowledge – & information management as well as on content management itself.
Through a network of qualified industrial (e. g. Atlassian Sydney/Australia, TextTech Leipzig/Germany, OpenLink Software/UK, ParsGroup Vienna/Austria) and scientific partners (e. g. Know Center Graz/Austria, University of Leipzig/Germany, Salzburg Research/Austria) SWC ensures its competitive edge and complements its market offerings by diverse industry-specific solutions.
http://www.semantic-web.at
Gnowsis is a startup recently founded by Leo Sauermann and Bernhard Schandl. Their goal is to apply results from research in the field of Semantic Web, Semantic Desktop, and Personal Information Management in order to build tools that help people managing their personal information spheres more efficiently, and to share and exchange that knowledge within communities and groups. The founders of gnowsis have several years of research experience in various national and international projects (including EU FP6 NEPOMUK, EU FP7 OrganiK, FIT-IT SemDAV, FIT-IT MobiSem, and EU FP6 BRICKS) and have published numerous scientific papers in the field. gnowsis is currently funded and supported by the INiTS business incubator.
gnowsis is committed to tightly cooperate with research partners since we envision this as a business advantage against our competitors. gnowsis has a strong focus on Semantic Web technologies, and therefore the proposed project perfectly fits our development and research strategy.
http://www.gnowsis.com
Neurovation is a company founded in 2007 by Dr. Reinhard Willfort as a spin-off of the consultancy ISN – Innovation Service Network. Preceding the foundation of the company in 2007 a two year interdisciplinary innovation research project – initiated by ISN – was conducted inducing the establishment of the firm. The research project dealt with the creative process from a neuroscientific point of view and the respective applications in the field of creativity and idea generation support (cf. [FI06], [LU05], [MA09]). The Team of Neurovation GmbH is still interdisciplinary and consists of neuroscientists, innovation researchers, usability designers and web developers. Based on the results of the research project Neurovation has developed a webbased platform containing innovation services on a virtual, technology based level. The focus is the well-founded support of the idea generation phase (i. e. one of the first phases of an innovation
http://www.neurovation.at
The Knowledge Management Institute (KMI) undertakes interdisciplinary research on knowledge management in a broad spectrum of domains, integrating technological and application-oriented perspectives. Leveraging its expertise, KMI aims to make a substantial contribution to teaching within the “Software Development and Economy” Study Program of Graz University of Technology.
The technology-oriented research stream focuses on acquiring, managing and applying semantic metadata, relying on technologies such as MPEG-7, RDF and OWL. From an applied perspective, KMI investigates the use of social software in the context of Web 2.0 to build, structure and transfer knowledge within and across organizations. A third line of research focuses on the application of competence structures for technology enhanced and game-based learning.
KMI closely cooperates with the Know-Center, Austria’s COMET Competence Center for Knowledge Management, and therefore retains close connections with Austrian corporate partners.
http://www.kmi.tugraz.at