Research and Innovation in ICT

Abstract

The ICT environment has changed drastically in last 5 years. The paper describes the challenges of enabling critical mass of knowledge for multidisciplinary research and innovation in the current field of ICT. In introduction we describe our team, the importance of ICT and particular broadband internet access. Internet of things is also described, bringing great diversity of new domains the ICT has to encompass and support. The main part of the article addresses the ICT environment changes and different approaches towards research and innovation adaptation detailed with examples. As the research and innovation environment changes, we as a team have to adapt. The challenges and solutions are presented, based on concrete examples from the field of eHealth and wellbeing.