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All ICT projects involve consortia and the partners are required to agree conditions for sharing and using IPR from any results arising from the project. Where the IPR is available for third-party commercialisation ICT Results will identify the relevant partners who can provide more detailed information.

A commercialisation partner is a member of a research project consortium who has identified a result of the project that can be used to commercial advantage for that partner AND is taking steps to develop the result into a commercial offer to the market place.

Each week, articles are uploaded to ICT Results and an E-Bulletin is sent out to registered users every week which is a digest of the last five days’ published articles.

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Our syndicated newsfeed allows you to automatically add ICT Results directly to your website.

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Using search operators:
Using more than one word will show all the elements where the different words are found, and will depend on the operator used.

• Using quotes- example: "open source". The system will match the exact expression and nothing else.
• Using AND- example: 'mobile AND technology'. The system will only show the elements containing both the terms mobile AND technology
• Using OR- example: 'mobile OR software'. The system will show the elements containing both the terms mobile and software, or only containing software or only containing mobile.
• Using NEAR- example: 'mobile NEAR software'. The system will show all the elements containing both the term mobile and software and close to each other.
• Using NOT- example: 'mobile NOT software'. The system will only show the elements containing the word mobile, and not the ones containing the word software.

Multiple search operators in search string:
Only the combination of AND NOT is allowed. All other combinations of search operators will lead to an error.

For example, "teleworking AND NOT e-mail" will find all occurrences containing "teleworking" but not containing "e-mail". 'Mobile and or software' and 'Mobile not near software' will end up as 'error message'.

But, using AND and NEAR in the same phrase is possible, as long as they are not next to one another.

For example, 'Learning AND technology NEAR vision', will find all the elements containing both learning and technology, and which are close to the word vision in the text.

Using a search operator at the beginning or end of a sentence:
When using a search operator at the beginning or the end of a sentence, the operator will be removed.

For example, 'Mobile AND', 'OR mobile', 'NOT mobile'. The system will only find the elements containing the word mobile.

There is a facility to search and browse ICT Results content both within individual web pages (e.g. search within Events or within Features) or across all website content (from the Home Page).

Criteria for browsing include: 

• Type of content 
• Country 
• Date of publication 
• Technology area 
• Market Application area

For a comprehensive list of the technologies and market application areas covered in ICT Results, see What is ICT Results?

Users can select from a drop down list of terms for any one of these criteria (or choose to leave them blank) in order to build up a set of content relevant to their own needs.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary. It is an XML specification for content syndication used to describe how to display content (also known as a feed) in software called news aggregators or for adding feeds directly on your site.

Content providers, such as ICT Results, write the feed according to the specification and users can subscribe to the feed using the news aggregation software. Some of the more common aggregators include:

• Newsisfree
• Fastbuzz
• NewsGator
• Awasu
• FeedDemon
• Bloglines

Each one works a little differently, but they all enable users to subscribe to a content source, organise them and view the feeds (subscriptions). You just see the hyperlinked article title and summary allowing you to quickly scan the information. Clicking on the title of interest takes you to the full article on the source website.

Once you subscribe you can also choose the frequency of receipt of updates.

You can subscribe to individual websites, such as ICT Results, or build a feed on a particular term such as your company name or industry. Any time the term appears on a website or blog, you will then be informed via your aggregator software, rather than your e-mail inbox. Note, some aggregator will publish your selection to your inbox, if you still prefer e-mails. Unlike e-mail newsletters RSS puts the user in control.

The RSS model only subscribes to the feeds of choice. To unsubscribe simply remove the feed from the aggregator.

Webmasters can add ICT Results their website. For this we have made available a JavaScript feed. If you're not interested in using JavaScript, there are many other tools out there to add RSS feeds to your site.  We suggest you consult the specialICT press for more detailed information.

All articles published on ICT Results are categorised to help users browse the site to find the information they are specifically interested in.

Features are grouped by market application area, technology and the country of the contact person. We have provided a list of the different categories and how they are broken down along with examples of the most recent features. The markets and technologies are based on the IPPA classification used within the European Commission's Information Society and Media Directorate-General.

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