Vision
- We are one of the leading international research organisations in knowledge management and knowledge technologies.
- We turn our competences into real innovations.
- We provide the (research) community with intelligent Services and Open Source to promote research.
Mission
- We increase the attractivity of Styria as an industry location by combining application-oriented IT research competences and connecting these with the most innovative companies.
- We improve the competitiveness of our partner companies and our customers by bridging the gap between science and industry and by transferring scientific results to provide true innovation.
- We raise EU funds in order to tackle new research and innovation topics and prepare our partner companies for the future.
- We let our partner companies take part in EU-funded projects and thereby enable them to participate in Europe-wide research and innovation networks.
- We stimulate new research topics in the field of knowledge management and knowledge technologies, which result from open questions in industry.
- We promote knowledge transfer and community building between science and industry with our annual conference i-KNOW.
- We cooperate with internationally renowned scientific institutions and disseminate latest scientific results in our competence areas by publishing our journal J.UCS.
- We contribute to an increased level of qualification in Styria by building up human resources who are highly qualified for both, science and industry.