http://poesys.eu high-tech startup consultancy Thu, 21 May 2009 03:47:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en During my time at Synergetics, an employability process company, we constructed numerous context ontologies. Basically they served as a formal foundation for grounding competencies: generic competencies + context = meaningful and 'interoperable' competencies. Examples are context ontologies of the NedCar automotive plant and the laboratory environment of the Hogeschool Ghent. ... http://poesys.eu/?p=214 The IWT (the main Flemish institute for research funding) has released a much-awaited new funding scheme, which will allow companies and universities to cooperate around a PhD project. The Baekeland programme aims to offer researchers the opportunity to finish a doctoral degree at a Flemish university (or a knowledge institute that ... http://poesys.eu/?p=164 About a year ago, I went to Ieper to the magnificent offices (a modern, lofty, revitalised old textile factory) of the CREAX company, an innovation consultancy and software firm. Their managing director Simon Dewulf, who has a background in innovation in engineering at the Imperial College of London and also ... http://poesys.eu/?p=136 I deleted the first one accidentally while struggling with my wet-behind-the-ears Wordpress installation :-) Below are some posts which I imported from my professional blog @ davormeersman.wordpress.com, which I will no longer be updating, so make sure to update your bookmarks. This blog will subsititue the old one. http://poesys.eu/?p=37 I have been invited by Martin Hepp to join his Semantic Technology Institute as a visiting scientist for two weeks, starting at the end of January. I am really looking forward to this, as it will give me a chance to ventilate my ideas with the thought leader of product ... http://poesys.eu/?p=154 I gave a presentation at the OTM Doctoral Consortium and received constructive and mostly positive feedback. The Doctoral Consortium was a pretty unique event, where one could test his or her ideas in front of a panel of prominent professors in the field of information systems. It felt good to ... http://poesys.eu/?p=153 “Dear Davor Meersman, We are happy to inform you that your paper entitled "Market Driven Product Ontologies", submitted to DC2007, has been accepted for inclusion in the proceedings. […] Best regards, DC2007 PC chairs” The reviewers’ comments were tough, but constructive. I still need to perform some work for the camera-ready version, but ... http://poesys.eu/?p=16 After a year of thinking, working and conceptualising, I submitted a paper to the - catch this - On The Move to Meaningful Internet Systems and Ubiquitous Computing Federated Conferences Doctoral Consortium (OTM 2007 in short ;-). The paper is on the subject of Market Driven Product Ontologies. In this paper ... http://poesys.eu/?p=7