Promoscience
Promoscience is a spin-off of SISSA founded in 2004 by a team of researchers specialized in exploring the requirements of the scientific community, perfecting new and effective knowledge transmission strategies and developing adapted content management systems.
Promoscience product line includes Sharescience, a Content Management tool for scientific dissemination and Netscience, a Project Management Tool aimed at supporting the management of scientific projects. These tools demonstrate the core competences of Promoscience which are the development of innovative web based software for sharing objectives, managing activities and spreading results among the scientific communities.
Role and expertise of Promoscience in the proposal
The experience in science communication, in technology transfer and in intellectual assets management of the founder Riccardo Brancaleon, the long experience in project management of the Promoscience collaborator Sergio Persoglia, complementary to the know-how of Promoscience ICT staff, will converge to a set of competencies and web based tools useful throughout all phases of this project: i - assistance to the Co-ordinator in preparation and possible revisions of the Consortium Agreement; ii – organisation of a communication plan to inform the scientific community about project goals, development, results and sharing of important information; iii – production of different communication tools like leaflets, brochures and animated presentations; iv - monitoring of deliverables, alerts for the expired ones, direct contacts with the involved Partners and coherency control through web tools in preparing Periodic and Final Activity, Management and Financial Report; v - assistance to the Co-ordinator in his contact with the EC Reviewers and EC Officers. Promoscience will do its best efforts to ensure a successful exploitation strategy by identifying, preventing and addressing all the potential internal and external obstacles such as diverging expectations among partners, technology and market changes as well as problems related to the social acceptance of Nanotechnologies.
A selection of the most relevant publications from Promoscience
Camus C, Brancaleon R (2003) Intellectual assets management: from patents to knowledge. World Patent Information, 25(2) pp. 155-159
Parodi P, Brancaleon R, Venuti F, Musso G, Torre V (1999) Document Storage and Retrieval in a Neural Database. DEXA Workshop: 598-602