The Know-Center is Austria’s competence center for knowledge management and innovation point at the interface between science and industry. Since its establishment in 2001, the Know-Center has been developing highly innovative IT solutions for knowledge management. Its focus research areas are:
- Conceptual design and implementation of intelligent IT services for knowledge work and learning in organizations and communities (e.g. recommending knowledge resources in the work context)
- Conceptual design and implementation of methods for the discovery and content based analysis of knowledge in complex knowledge spaces (e.g. semantic search)
The Know-Center is being funded by Austria’s Competence Center Program COMET. The strategic objectives of COMET are: developing new expertise by initiating and supporting long-term research co-operations between science and industry in toplevelresearch, and establishing and securing the technological leadership of companies. By advancing and bundling existing strengths and by integrating international research expertise Austria is to be strengthened as a researchlocation for the long term.
The following facts indicate the success and the competence of the Know-Center since its founding in 2001:
- About 290 successful knowledge management projects with partners from science and industry.
- Sustained and successful partnerships with 23 companies.
- Successul implementation projects with companies in diverse industries, e.g. microelectronics, public administration, media and further education.
- About 575 publications in reviewed journals and proceedings as well as in books and magazines.
- Successful completion of about 100 diploma/master and bachelor theses, 26 dissertations und 4 habilitations.
- Publication of the scientifically well-reputed J.UKM (Journal of Universal Knowledge Management) and J.UCS (Journal of Universal Computer Science).
- Organisation of 36 events on knowledge management with a total of more than 5.420 attendees from science and industry.
- Organisation of i-KNOW, the international conference on knowledge management and knowledge technologies.
Last update: October 2011
