Viktoria Institute
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The Viktoria Institute is a research institute for applied information technology, located in Göteborg, Sweden. It employs some 30 researchers, plus some doctoral students and administrative staff, within the following areas:
- future applications
- knowledge management
- public safety
- telematics.
In addition, seminars and other research dissemination activities are conducted.
The institute is organized as a joint-stock company and owned by Swedish Institute of Computer Science (91%), West Sweden IT Association (5%), and Chalmers University of Technology (4%).
[edit] History
The institute was founded as a spin-out from Göteborg university in 1997 as the result of an initiative taken by industry mainly from West Sweden and some academics from Göteborg. The institute started in 1997 with 7 employees, but expanded to 15 people within the first year of its existence and performed research in the areas
- IT & Organization (later divided into the two areas Business Technology and Knowledge Management),
- Mobile Informatics,
- Ubiquitous computing.
The institute was organized as a private joint-stock company, owned by the West Sweden IT Association (a non-profit association for corporate members) Göteborg university, and Chalmers University of Technology. Research financing was received through annual membership fees of corporate members, mission oriented research, and public research funds.
The original location was a building shared with the university's department of Informatics on Viktoriagatan in the center of Göteborg. The street address also gave name to the institute. After the establishment of Lindholmen Science Park in Göteborg, the institute moved there, sharing its new premises with the IT University of Göteborg.
As part of the re-organization of IT research in Sweden in 2003, the institute was incorporated into the SICS group, a national holding organization for IT research, comprising the Swedish Institute for Computer Science, the Interactive Institute, the Santa Anna Research Institute and the Viktoria Institute.
