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RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION

WRITTEN BY SUZANNE GLORIE ~ PHOTOGRAPHY EADS Airbus SAS 2013 All rights reserved.

TIE Kinetix participates in innovative projects with partners like EADS, Airbus, FIAT and University of Vienna

Introduction to Innovation
Innovation is generally understood as the successful introduction of a new thing or method. It is the embodiment, combination, or synthesis of knowledge in original, relevant, valued new products, processes, or services.
PROUD TO CONTRIBUTE TO INNOVATION
We are particularly proud to contribute to programs and policies the European Commission (EC) is formulating, influencing and, where appropriate, implementing in order to increase Europes innova tiveness. The EC is trying to make sure innovation is thoroughly understood and approached comprehensively, thereby contributing to greater competitiveness, sustainability and job creation. These objectives have our full support and perfectly fit with TIEs vision. IE Kinetix continuously keeps up with new online technology and trends through our Research & Development (RDI) unit with the aim to improve and enhance our products and solutions.

MULTI-PARTNER COOPERATION TO SHARE & ACQUIRE SKILLS

One of the ways we share our skills and acquire new ones is through multi-partner cooperative European and National research projects. TIE is particularly active in the European Commissionss framework innovation programs (e.g. FP7) which annually spends about 50 Billion Euro on research in important fields such as ICT, Energy and Health. Other programs TIE participates in include ITEA and Eurostars - an European Joint Program dedicated to the R&D SMEs. These projects allow TIE to be in touch with partners like EADS, FIAT, Airbus, University of Vienna, SKF and Fraunhofer. Participation in both European, Regional and National innovation

initiatives has many advantages for our organization and our customers, like being at the forefront of technology knowledge, influencing technical direction and using the tangible results in our products. We have a specific strategy designed to contribute our vision and our experience and also extract knowledge and insight into our solutions.

GUARDING INDUSTRY STANDARDS

TIE has always been active in EDI and ebXML community efforts such as the United Nations CEFACT organisation and the European Standards Institute (CEN). More recently, we have been involved in NESSI which is the European Commission supported Technology Platform for Software and Services as one of the formal partners, along with HP, IBM, Thales, Siemens, SAP, Telecom Italia, etc. We are represented in the Board by our CEO Jan Sundelin and our CTO Stuart Campbell who is also one of the Steering Committees Vice Chairs and chair of the NESSI SME Activity.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein

CONTACT US WITH IDEAS

The TIE RDI team is very knowledgeable in the area of Research funding and activity and has defined methodologies for constructing successful and creative proposals and also, where applicable, coordinating them to success. If you are interested in our research activities or have an idea and wish to partner with us , we invite you to contact us.