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).

1. Digital Book Publishing
in the Future
Technological,
economical,
and practical
perspectives

2. 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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3. 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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4. iMinds: A Virtual Research Institute
Leverages the strengths of 5 universities,
20 research groups, and more than 800 researchers
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5. iMinds’ Research Departments
ICT
Media
Health
Energy
Smart
Cities
Manufacturing
Future Internet Department
Future Media & Imaging Department
Security Department
Future Health Department
Digital Society Department
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6. From Idea to Business: Our Innovation Toolbox
5+ years
Strategic
research
Knowledgedriven
Explorative
Basics for
applied research
Time-to-market
…1 year
Applied
research
Pre-competitive
testing
Incubation &
entrepreneurship
Business-driven
Large-scale user
trials & living
labs
Training &
coaching
Evaluate
technical
feasibility
Facilities
Interdisciplinary
Cooperative
Demand-driven
Proof of Concept
Simulations
Financing
Networking
Internationalization
ICON projects
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7. 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
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
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8. Publisher of the Future: Operational Organization
To achieve the innovation goals, demand-driven pilot
projects are defined with a duration of one year
value chain modeling
streaming business models
metadata and data modeling
authoring and enrichment
Davy Hanegreefs (Boek.be)
Olivier Braet (iMinds)
Tom De Nies (iMinds)
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