Company name: FZI
Website: http://www.fzi.de/
Projects: ALERT, Play, Synergy
FZI is a non-profit research and technology transfer center comprising 14 R&D teams – each of them directed by a Professor also holding a chair for Computer Science, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or Business Administration at the University of Karlsruhe – Germany‘s oldest and one of its most successful Technical Universities.
FZI is a non-profit research and technology transfer center comprising 14 R&D teams – each of them directed by a Professor also holding a chair for Computer Science, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or Business Administration at the University of Karlsruhe – Germany‘s oldest and one of its most successful Technical Universities. FZI helps its partners and customers in applying novel information technologies for realizing new and better products, services, and business processes. FZI is a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), member of NESSI, it participates in the IBM Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) pro- gramme, it established together with Microsoft a .NET-based center for Innovative Software Concepts, and it won several contracts from the European HPMT Programme to act as a Marie-Curie Training Center.
FZI was founded in 1985, currently employs ca. 120 researchers plus additional student assistants, and had a turnover of ca. 11 MEURO in 2008. It has outstanding experience in scientific research and industrial development projects in regional, national and international cooperations, as well as in providing technology consulting services, for instance feasibility studies, technology scouting, market studies, prototype develop- ment, etc. Through its multidisciplinary, close-to-the-University approach and its close collaboration in manifold networks (with its University sister institutes, several spin-off companies, partners in European Networks of Excellence, etc) it can ensure on one hand that newest methods are applied and further developed and the highest level of ICT research excellence can be reached, and on the other hand that research results can widely be spread into the scientific community.