European collaborative networked organizations leadership initiative

Objective

European Collaborative networked Organisations LEADership initiative, ECOLEAD, aims to create strong foundations and mechanisms needed to establish the most advanced collaborative and network-based industry society in Europe:
- In ten years most enterprises will be part of some sustainable collaborative networks that will act as breeding environments for the formation of dynamic virtual organizations in response to fast changing market conditions.
- The fundamental assumption in ECOLEAD is that a substantial impact in materialising networked collaborative business ecosystems requires holistic approach.

Area's complexity and the multiple inter-dependencies among the involved business entities, social actors, and technologies, substantial breakthroughs cannot be achieved with incremental innovation in isolated areas. On the other hand, project plans must remain manageable. Thus ECOLEAD addresses the most fundamental and inter-related focus areas, which form the basis for dynamic and sustainable-networked organizations: the VO Breeding Environments, Dynamic Virtual Organizations and Professional Virtual Communities.

In addition to these three vertical focus areas, the holistic approach is reinforced and sustained on two horizontal areas: the theoretical foundation for collaborative networks and the horizontal ICT infrastructure. The horizontal activities support and affect all three vertical focus areas. The theoretical foundation shall provide the basis for technology-independent understanding of the area and its phenomena. The existence of an invisible, low-cost ICT infrastructure is a pre-condition for the establishment of truly dynamic collaborative networks.

ECOLEAD is expected to impact industrial competitiveness and societal mechanisms, by providing means to effectively exploit opportunities deriving from the deployment of VOs, and by designing and enabling new professional work paradigms, capable of enacting the knowledge-based society throughout Europe.

Field of science

• /social sciences/economics and business

Programme(s)

• FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006).

Topic(s)

• IST-2002-2.3.1.9 - Networked business and governments

Funding Scheme

IP - Integrated Project

Coordinator

VALTION TEKNILLINEN TUTKIMUSKESKUS

Address

Vuorimiehentie 3
02044 Espoo
Finland

Participants (27)

ASSOCIATION SWISS MICROTECH ENTERPRISE NETWORK

Switzerland

Address

2720 Tramelan

CEBENETWORK GMBH ENGINEERING & IT

Germany

Address

Flughafenallee 28
28199 Bremen

CERTICON A.S.

Czechia

Address

Vaclavska 12/316
120 00 Praha 2

CESKE VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V PRAZE

Czechia

Address

Zikova 4
166 36 Praha 6

COMARCH S.A.

Poland

Address

Ul Aleja Jana Pawla Ii, Nr. 39A
31-864 Krakow

EDINFORM SPA

Italy

Address

Via Luigi De Simone 23
73100 Lecce

ENICMA GMBH

Germany

Address

Stefan-george-ring 29
81929 Muenchen

FRANCE TELECOM SA

France

Address

Place D'alleray 6
75015 Paris

GRUPPO FORMULA S.P.A.

Italy

Address

Corso Francia 223
10090 Cascine Vica, Rivoli

INGENIERIA Y SOLUCIONES INFORMATICAS DEL SUR, SOCIEDAD LIMITADA

Spain

Address

Calle San Eloy 23 4A
41001 Sevilla

INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO Y DE ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES DE MONTERREY

Mexico

Address

Avenida Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur
64849 Monterrey, N.l.

JOENSUUN TIEDEPUISTO OY

Finland

Address

Lansikatu 15
80110 Joensuu

JOZEF STEFAN INSTITUTE

Slovenia

Address

Jamova 39
1000 Ljubljana

LOGICACMG NEDERLAND B.V.

Netherlands

Address

Prof. W. H. Keesomlaan 14
1183DJ Amstelveen

ORONA E.I.C., S. COOP.

Spain

Address

Poligono Industrial Lastaola
20120 Hernani

SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT OESTERREICH

Austria

Address

Siemensstrasse 92
1210 Wien

SOFTWARE AG ESPANA SA

Spain

Address

Ronda De La Luna 4
28760 Tres Cantos - Madrid

STICHTING AIESEC INTERNATIONAL

Netherlands

Address

Teilingerstraat 126-128
3032 AW Rotterdam

SUPPLY NETWORK SHANNON LTD

Ireland

Address

C/o Shannon Development, The Granary, Michael St
Limerick

T.X.T. E-SOLUTIONS SPA

Italy

Address

Via Frigia 27
20126 Milano

TES - TELEINFORMATICA E SISTEMI S.R.L.

Italy

Address

Via Di Tor Tre Teste 229
00155 Roma

UNDEFINED

Address

Undefined
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UNINOVA - INSTITUTO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO DE NOVAS TECNOLOGIAS

Portugal

Address

Campus Da Fct/unl, Monte De Caparica
2829-516 Caparica

UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA

Brazil

Address

Campus Universitario
88.010-970 Florianapolis-sc

UNIVERSITAET BREMEN

Germany

Address

Bibliothekstrasse 1
28359 Bremen

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM

Netherlands

Address

Spui 21
1012 WX Amsterdam

VIRTUELLE FABRIK AG

Switzerland

Address

Schlossgasse 2
9320 Arbon