Abstract
The Darwin project carried out research on evolvability in an industrial setting. This chapter discusses the results transferred to the industrial party of the project: Philips Healthcare MRI. Our discussion about the industrial impact of the project pays attention to the highlights in transfer in the four areas of the Darwin research on evolvability, namely: mining, mechanisms, reference architecture and economic decision making. Several of the research results are currently being used by Philips Healthcare MRI. In this chapter, we reflect on the project and summarize the results. First, the industrial impact of the Darwin results is discussed. Second, twelve factors are presented to identify the transfer of the Darwin results to industry. Third an overview of activities, as well as the different kinds of project meetings, to conduct an Industry-as-Laboratory project is described. All this results in a set of lessons learned for the Industry-as-Laboratory research paradigm.
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Technology transfer is the introduction of new methods, techniques or tools into a company. Technology transfer is a subset of knowledge transfer. That transfer seeks to organize, create, capture or distribute knowledge and ensure its availability for future users.
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Used informally to refer to the ratio of useful data to false or irrelevant data.
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Note that this might be caused by working with academic PhD students who are intrinsically more at home at the university and less at the company than industrial PhD students
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We thank Maarten Bonnema, Jozef Hooman, Nico van Rooijen and Dave Watts for their valuable feedback when reviewing an earlier version of this chapter.
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Punter, T., van de Laar, P. (2010). Industrial Impact and Lessons Learned. In: Van de Laar, P., Punter, T. (eds) Views on Evolvability of Embedded Systems. Embedded Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9849-8_17
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