Process capability modeling became a tool for the systematization and codification of knowledge for process oriented activities in various areas. Enterprise SPICE defines a domain independent integrated model for enterprise-wide assessment and continuous process improvement. This paper presents the use of a SPICE conformant application dependent process modeling to support a smart specialization based regional innovation strategy process. Smart specialization is the main approach for the development and implementation of innovation strategies to improve of European regions within the programming period 2014–2020 driven by EU structural funds. The work presented in this paper provides the details of the regional innovation strategy process capability assessment model that is designed as an extension of the Enterprise SPICE Model.

This paper presents the methodical approach of an INTERREG project aiming to improve the implementation and evaluation of European Research & Innovation strategies. The P2L2 project applies interregional policy learning and exchange of experiences on aspects influencing the regional innovation ecosystems in the field of advanced materials. The key enabling technology advanced materials complements the regional economic and research tissue of six participating regions with a stable opportunity for future growth and jobs. P2L2 goes beyond traditional good practice sharing and results are expected not only to improve policy instruments. All activities related to the definition, implementation and evaluation of the RIS3 and smart specialization strategies are described in terms of an ISO/IEC 330xx conformant Process Reference and Assessment Model (PRM/PAM).The improved process capability aligns regional policies and strategies between sectors in order to facilitate the establishment of real innovation ecosystems beyond administrative regional boundaries and identifies overlaps, gaps and complimentarily for European collaboration.

This paper presents the methodical approach of an INTERREG project aiming to improve the implementation and evaluation of European Research & Innovation strategies. The P2L2 project applies interregional policy learning and exchange of experiences on aspects influencing the regional innovation ecosystems in the field of advanced materials. The key enabling technology “advanced materials” complements the regional economic and research tissue of six participating regions with a stable opportunity for future growth and jobs. P2L2 goes beyond traditional 'good practice sharing' and results are expected not only to improve policy instruments. All activities related to the definition, implementation and evaluation of the RIS3 and smart specialization strategies are described in terms of an ISO/IEC 330xx conformant Process Reference and Assessment Model (PRM/PAM). The improved process capability aligns regional policies and strategies between sectors in order to facilitate the establishment of real innovation ecosystems beyond administrative regional boundaries and identifies overlaps, gaps and complementarity for European collaboration.

Abstract Scientific results benefit from more tangible stakeholder communication. Showrooms are a tool to transform abstract scientific concepts into solution-oriented and less complex demonstrators. The basic idea of a showroom implies a smart expo and meeting place to demonstrate the latest technological developments in a comprehensive and interactive manner and to stimulate transfer of scientific results to practice. Presentation of new technologies can be an eye opener of what can already be done today. But it is just more than this as it can put discussion with interested stakeholders to a new level - allowing to think beyond this - paving the ground for innovation. This way a showroom stimulates very substantial discussion about future ideas with real involvement of industry and society. Involving the public via a showroom environment is also helpful for the diffusion of new ideas, leading to potential faster market take-up, when new solutions are put into reality. Furthermore the interaction with the public is a stimulus also for the scientist, raising a much better understanding about current and future needs. Capability is understood as a measure of the ability of an entity (organization, person, system) to achieve its objectives in relation to its overall mission professional science communication is part of the capability of, e.g., a university. Innovation capability in this sense refers to the ability of a set of regional stakeholders from academia, political authorities, public administrations and industry to innovate in synergy for economic and societal development – showrooms are an important tool to achieve this.

Nowadays, the most topical researches pertaining to wireless sensor networks are based on the optimization of the structure of network transmission protocol, the routing and network optimization and as a result it is possible to prolong the lifecycle of wireless sensor networks. The nodes pertaining to information storage and processing are mainly equipped with an uninterrupted power supply, independent distribution network connectivity and a high performance computing system. This means that the direction of the data is definitely known in the sensor network, the information from terminals is sent to the information storage and processing nodes. The capacity of data traffic near the coordinator node is much higher than at the distant points, as a result, the existing elements close to processing nodes stop operating sooner than others due to lack of electricity and therefore the network ceases to function. This article describes the management methodology of coordinator node mobility of the in a wireless sensor network which provides the wireless sensor network node with grouping, the transmission protocol optimization and the adjustment to the current environment, resulting in a reduction of the power consumption in the network nodes.

Innovation and technology transfer consist mainly of process-oriented activities and can be described in process-oriented terms by an innovation and technology transfer process capability model such as InnoSPICE. To verify such a thesis, an extended validation of the InnoSPICE adequacy for different factual innovation and technology transfer activities is needed. The purpose of this paper is to validate the InnoSPICE model for technology transfer led by a technology developer based on capability assessment of technology transfer process for several various research results.

This experience report is reflecting on aspects of the implementation of innoSPICE to support political European innovation and knowledge transfer strategies. The ISO/IEC15504 standard based model innoSPICE provides the base to improve the processes of organizations working in the field of innovation, knowledge- and technology transfer in a structured and standardized way. Elements from the IP Charter Initiative and from the implementation of the Baltic Sea Region Strategy are presented and the contribution of innoSPICE shown.

The Process capability modeling elaborated by the world-wide software engineering community during the last 25 years became a tool for systematization and codifying knowledge and experience of process oriented activities. This tool is designed to improve the predictability of activity results, i.e. process capability. Namely, ISO/IEC 15504 defines a process capability dimension and the requirements for any external process definition to be applicable process capability dimension. Enterprise SPICE defines a domain-independent integrated model for enterprise-wide assessments and pertinent improvement. On the other hand, any application domain contains application specific knowledge and experience that is not covered in width and depth by domain independent process modeling. The purpose of this paper is to address the problem of application dependent SPICE conformant process modeling integrated with application independent components. It will be illustrated with the developer processes of the innovation, knowledge and technology transfer process model innoSPICE.

The constant technological improvement of products, services, processes and work environment is a critical factor for the development of our economy and society. It strongly depends on the ability to develop knowledge and technology, to transfer it from the point of generation to the site of adaptation and application and to put the technology into use for the benefit of the acquirers and transferors. So far, there is no widely accepted, reliable, predictable and efficient method to evaluate to what extent an organization performs such activities, i.e., innovation, knowledge- and technology transfer (IKaTT). To cope with this problem, we propose to adopt a process-oriented point of view where outcome quality is achieved by the means of process quality. This paper introduces a SPICE conformant innovation, knowledge and technology transfer process capability model that reuses the existing capability dimension of ISO/IEC 15504 to assess knowledge and technology development, transfer and innovation.

The improvement of scientific knowledge and technology transfer (KTT) for a better economic sustainability is one of the European key challenges. innoSPICE is an evaluation procedure related to this kind of transfer that supports process improvement of knowledge-intense institutions to generate more innovation while helping investors and research institutions optimize public funds to achieve economic added value. As a standard-based model, innoSPICE has become an international instrument for quality management in the field of innovation and KTT. The model will be officially published within the family of ISO/IEC 15504 models like Automotive SPICE or Enterprise SPICE. Since the established systematic approach to outcome quality management is process quality management, this process reference and assessment model (PRM) partially borrows from recognized process capability models and was tested by KTT practitioners from 13 European countries. As a quality management system, innoSPICE offers research organizations and those responsible for technology transfer an instrument by which they can support KTT activities and make organizational structures and their functionality more transparent through a standard report that can also be published to the outside. This paper presents an introduction to the innoSPICE Model, the assessment methodology and provides a first analysis of the innoSPICE assessments performed so far.

Between 2004 and 2009, the European Commission and 42 partners from 16 countries invested about 24 million Euros to empower mobile workers through the wearIT@work project. In addition to maintenance, production, healthcare, and emergency response, new application domains targeted included cultural heritage, a rural living lab for the prevention of environmental disasters, and wearable computing assistance for visually impaired persons. Industrial demonstrators, evaluations results, and an exploitation strategy were developed and published in a technology repository that indicates the maturity levels of the different components.

Following the successful proven concept of small and specialized exhibitions (so called showrooms) run by research institutions as windows to scientific innovation, the network BONITA (a project financed by the INTERREG IV B – Baltic Sea Region) extends the physical showrooms to virtual ones. While the basic idea of the physical showroom is to have an attractive exhibition area for demonstrating cutting edge-technologies in a tangible and accessible fashion and transmitting technological knowledge between science and a region, the main idea of the virtual showroom is to have centralized access to several exhibits located in different places resulting in distributed knowledge and bridging the gap between the physical and virtual world of museums and showrooms and between the expert and the visitor. The presentation of what is now technically feasible should be just one aspect of the showroom. It should also create a connection to what is technically imaginable, whereby the visionary aspects of the technology are communicated. The combination of tangible benefits and interdisciplinary visions for the future is an exceeding interesting one. Firstly it allows specific innovations to find their way to market more quickly, since they gain a higher profile and are in the public eye. On the other hand, long-term trends can also be created interactively and discussed within different target groups.

In manufacturing processes damages occur caused by humans or machines. These damages have to be reported and documented, e.g. to enable a manufacturer to react in quality circles. The first part of this paper describes the process of creating survey reports. Furthermore a customized solution designed for mobile survey reports is introduced. In the second part this paper describes and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this mobile solution in an automotive industry setting.

The vision of Mobile and Wearable Computing is motivated by the observation that the simple transfer of the desktop paradigm is not sufficient in situations where the user needs to focus on a task related to the real world. Thus a new Mobile Computing paradigm is required. A functional definition is a system that can be used at any time and anywhere and does not in any way disturb the user’s interaction with the real world. Key properties required to achieve this are On a certain high level the above requirements are fairly obvious. From the application point of view it is equally obvious that today no system really fulfils them. What is less obvious is how the above functional definition translates into a technical specification and how the development towards fulfilling such specification should best proceed in the near future. In the technical and scientific community there is a heated debate about what constitutes such systems with visions ranging from building upon commercially available ‘PC on a belt’ and PDA solutions to integrate concepts of transistor level integration of electronics into textiles. The talk will describe in detail the new requirements for user interfaces and the state of context detection. The architecture of Mobile and Wearable Computing systems, the middleware and applications in domains like healthcare, production, maintenance will be outlined in some detail based on the experience of the authors from different research projects on the national and European level.

Summary The terms “Ubiquitous Computing”, “Wearable Computing”, and “Ambient Intelligence” are discussed and it is shown that the methodology of Living Labs will be crucial to the success of Wearable Computing. Research problems such as energy supply and power management, wearable user interfaces, context detection, and user acceptance and usability are described and illustrated by examples taken from the EU Integrated Project wearIT@work showing how Living Labs are used introducing the technology in practice. Zusammenfassung Die Begriffe „Ubiquitous Computing”, „Wearable Computing” und „Ambient Intelligence” werden gegenüber gestellt und es wird argumentiert, dass die Methode „Living Lab” kritisch für eine erfolgreiche Einführung des Wearable Computing in der Praxis ist. Forschungsfragen wie Stromversorgung, Benutzungsschnittstellen, Kontexterkennung und Akzeptanz durch die BenutzerInnen werden diskutiert und anhand des EU-integrierten Projekts wearIT@work wird der Nutzen von Living Labs für die Einführung in der Praxis an Beispielen erläutert.

Summary The terms “Ubiquitous Computing”, “Wearable Computing”, and “Ambient Intelligence” are discussed and it is shown that the methodology of Living Labs will be crucial to the success of Wearable Computing. Research problems such as energy supply and power management, wearable user interfaces, context detection, and user acceptance and usability are described and illustrated by examples taken from the EU Integrated Project wearIT@work showing how Living Labs are used introducing the technology in practice.