digital book publishing in the future: technological, economical, and practical perspectives
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TISP seminar on "Digital Book Publishing in the Future: Technological, Economical, and Practical Perspectives". Held during iMinds The Conference, The Square, Brussels (December 5, 2013).TRANSCRIPT
Digital Book Publishing in the Future
Technological, economical, and practical perspectives
Seminar Programme
Brief introduction to iMinds & the ‘Publisher of the Future’ project Wesley De Neve (iMinds – MMLab – Ghent University)
Putting the shop back into shopping: selling books in a digital age
Davy Hanegreefs (Boek.be)
Industrial aspects of digital book distribution Olivier Braet (iMinds – SMIT – Free University of Brussels)
Next steps for digital book authoring and publishing Tom De Nies (iMinds – MMLab – Ghent University)
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iMinds
Research institute founded in 2004 by the Flemish government, with the aim to create lasting economic
and social value through ICT innovation
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iMinds: A Virtual Research Institute
Leverages the strengths of 5 universities, 20 research groups, and more than 800 researchers
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iMinds’ Research Departments
ICT
Media
Health
Energy Smart Cities
Manu-facturing
Future Internet Department
Digital Society Department
Future Media & Imaging Department
Security Department
Future Health Department
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From Idea to Business: Our Innovation Toolbox
5+ years …1 year Time-to-market
Strategic research
Incubation & entrepreneurship
Applied research
Pre-competitive testing
Knowledge-driven Explorative Basics for applied research
Training & coaching
Financing
Facilities
Networking
Internationali-zation
Business-driven Interdisciplinary Cooperative Demand-driven Proof of Concept ICON projects
Large-scale user trials & living labs Evaluate technical feasibility Simulations
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Example Project: Publisher of the Future
Project on accelerating technological and business modeling innovation in the Flemish book sector
Boek.be: umbrella organization for the book sector
iMinds: research institute for ICT innovation
Budget: 4 FTEs, from July 2012 till June 2016
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Budget Responsibility Partner 2 FTEs Technological innovation iMinds (UGent - MMLab) 1 FTE Business modeling innovation iMinds (VUB - SMIT) 1 FTE Project management & promotion Boek.be
(*) Cooperative research: 80% of funding by government, 20% of funding by book sector
Publisher of the Future: Operational Organization
To achieve the innovation goals, demand-driven pilot projects are defined with a duration of one year
metadata and data modeling
authoring and enrichment value chain modeling
streaming business models
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Davy Hanegreefs (Boek.be) Olivier Braet (iMinds)
Tom De Nies (iMinds)