Twenty Years of Successful Translational Research: A Case Study of Three COMET Centers

Katja Bühler; Cornelia Travnicek; Veronika Nowak; Edgar Weippl; Lukas Fischer; Rudolf Ramler; Robert Wille

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Twenty Years of Successful Translational Research: A Case Study of Three COMET Centers

Katja Bühler (Corresponding author), Cornelia Travnicek, Veronika Nowak, Edgar Weippl, Lukas Fischer, Rudolf Ramler, Robert Wille

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The term ‘translational research’ is traditionally applied to medicine referring to a transfer of scientific results into practice, namely from ‘bench to bedside’. Only in recent years there have been attempts to define Translational (research in) Computer Science (TCS), aside from applied or basic research and mere commercialisation. In practice, however, funding programs for academia-industry collaboration in several European countries – like the Austrian COMET Program and its predecessors which include opportunities for Computer Science institutions – already provided a unique framework for TCS for over two decades. Although the COMET Program was initially set up as a means of temporary funding, a majority of the partaking institutions have managed to stay in the program over several funding periods – turning it in a de facto long-term funding framework that provides a successful structure for academia-industry collaboration. How to (i) identify the key factors to the success of individual Competence Centers and (ii) maintain fruitful relationships with industry and other academic partners are the main aims of this paper.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2022 Workshops
Subtitle of host publication	33rd International Conference, DEXA 2022, Proceedings
Editors	Gabriele Kotsis, Ismail Khalil, Atif Mashkoor, Johannes Sametinger, A Min Tjoa, Bernhard Moser, Jorge Martinez-Gil, Florian Sobieczky, Lukas Fischer, Rudolf Ramler, Gerald Czech, Alfred Taudes, Maqbool Khan
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	155-166
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-14343-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-14342-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14343-4_15
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2022

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Series	Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS)
Volume	1633
ISSN	1865-0929

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

102015 Information systems
102014 Information design

Keywords

Academia-industry collaboration
Computer science
Research centers
Technology transfer
Translational research

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Bühler, K., Travnicek, C., Nowak, V., Weippl, E., Fischer, L., Ramler, R., & Wille, R. (2022). Twenty Years of Successful Translational Research: A Case Study of Three COMET Centers. In G. Kotsis, I. Khalil, A. Mashkoor, J. Sametinger, A. M. Tjoa, B. Moser, J. Martinez-Gil, F. Sobieczky, L. Fischer, R. Ramler, G. Czech, A. Taudes, & M. Khan (Eds.), Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2022 Workshops: 33rd International Conference, DEXA 2022, Proceedings (pp. 155-166). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14343-4_15

Bühler, Katja ; Travnicek, Cornelia ; Nowak, Veronika et al. / Twenty Years of Successful Translational Research: A Case Study of Three COMET Centers. Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2022 Workshops: 33rd International Conference, DEXA 2022, Proceedings. editor / Gabriele Kotsis ; Ismail Khalil ; Atif Mashkoor ; Johannes Sametinger ; A Min Tjoa ; Bernhard Moser ; Jorge Martinez-Gil ; Florian Sobieczky ; Lukas Fischer ; Rudolf Ramler ; Gerald Czech ; Alfred Taudes ; Maqbool Khan. Cham : Springer, 2022. pp. 155-166 (Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), Vol. 1633).

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Bühler, K, Travnicek, C, Nowak, V , Weippl, E, Fischer, L, Ramler, R & Wille, R 2022, Twenty Years of Successful Translational Research: A Case Study of Three COMET Centers. in G Kotsis, I Khalil, A Mashkoor, J Sametinger, AM Tjoa, B Moser, J Martinez-Gil, F Sobieczky, L Fischer, R Ramler, G Czech, A Taudes & M Khan (eds), Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2022 Workshops: 33rd International Conference, DEXA 2022, Proceedings. Springer, Cham, Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), vol. 1633, pp. 155-166. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14343-4_15

Twenty Years of Successful Translational Research: A Case Study of Three COMET Centers. / Bühler, Katja (Corresponding author); Travnicek, Cornelia; Nowak, Veronika et al.
Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2022 Workshops: 33rd International Conference, DEXA 2022, Proceedings. ed. / Gabriele Kotsis; Ismail Khalil; Atif Mashkoor; Johannes Sametinger; A Min Tjoa; Bernhard Moser; Jorge Martinez-Gil; Florian Sobieczky; Lukas Fischer; Rudolf Ramler; Gerald Czech; Alfred Taudes; Maqbool Khan. Cham: Springer, 2022. p. 155-166 (Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), Vol. 1633).

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Bühler K, Travnicek C, Nowak V , Weippl E, Fischer L, Ramler R et al. Twenty Years of Successful Translational Research: A Case Study of Three COMET Centers. In Kotsis G, Khalil I, Mashkoor A, Sametinger J, Tjoa AM, Moser B, Martinez-Gil J, Sobieczky F, Fischer L, Ramler R, Czech G, Taudes A, Khan M, editors, Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2022 Workshops: 33rd International Conference, DEXA 2022, Proceedings. Cham: Springer. 2022. p. 155-166. (Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), Vol. 1633). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-14343-4_15

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