TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Taibi, Davide
A1  - Lenarduzzi, Valentina
A1  - Ahmad, Muhammad Ovais
A1  - Liukkunen, Kari
A1  - Lunesu, Ilaria
A1  - Matta, Martina
A1  - Fagerholm, Fabian
A1  - Münch, Jürgen
A1  - Pietinen, Sami
A1  - Tukiainen, Markku
A1  - Fernández-Sánchez, Carlos
A1  - Garbajosa, Juan
A1  - Systä, Kari
ED  - Oberhauser, Roy
T1  - "Free" innovation environments: lessons learned from the software factory initiatives
T2  - ICSEA 2015 : the Tenth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, November 15-20, 2015, Barcelona, Spain
N2  - Entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises usually have issues on developing new prototypes, new ideas or testing new techniques. In order to help them, in the last years, academic Software Factories, a new concept of collaboration between universities and companies have been developed. Software Factories provide a unique environment for students and companies. Students benefit from the possibility of working in a real work environment learning how to apply the state of the art of the existing techniques and showing their skills to entrepreneurs. Companies benefit from the risk-free environment where they can develop new ideas, in a protected environment. Universities finally benefit from this setup as a perfect environment for empirical studies in industrial-like environment. In this paper, we present the network of academic Software Factories in Europe, showing how companies had already benefit from existing Software Factories and reporting success stories. The results of this paper can increase the network of the factories and help other universities and companies to setup similar environment to boost the local economy.
KW  - software factory
KW  - experience report
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-7276
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-7276
UR  - http://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=instance&instance=ICSEA+2015
SN  - 978-1-61208-438-1
SB  - 978-1-61208-438-1
SP  - 25
EP  - 30
S1  - 6
PB  - IARIA
ER  -