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Stockholm-based Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) kicks off its venture into wireless communications with multi-disciplinary research and training in collaboration with industrial partners like Nokia, Ericsson, Telia and Microsoft.
Wireless@KTH as the venture is called has secured backing totalling SEK12m from the four companies. Centre manager Claes Beckman believes that further funding will come from additional industrial partners, KTH, the government and the EU. In total, he expects the centre to have an annual turnover in the region of SEK100m.
"However, we ask the industry to contribute to not just the funding, we also want them to take part in the projects," says Claes Beckman.
The idea is for activities to be far enough from product research to allow competitors like Ericsson and Nokia to participate in the same project and to make use of the results. Beckman points to the EU research project Frames in which Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens collaborated.
"This resulted in the WCDMA standard, and today the participants have some 70 per cent of that market."
Similarly, Wireless@KTH hopes to contribute to the fourth-generation mobile communications. In order to achieve this goal, the centre intends to adopt a multi-disciplinary approach, including economists as well as behaviourists in the projects. Autumn 2001, the centre will start an international Master Programme and Claes Beckman hopes there will be full engineering training focused on wireless communications a year later.
"However, we ask the industry to contribute to not just the funding, we also want them to take part in the projects," says Claes Beckman.
The idea is for activities to be far enough from product research to allow competitors like Ericsson and Nokia to participate in the same project and to make use of the results. Beckman points to the EU research project Frames in which Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens collaborated.
"This resulted in the WCDMA standard, and today the participants have some 70 per cent of that market."
Similarly, Wireless@KTH hopes to contribute to the fourth-generation mobile communications. In order to achieve this goal, the centre intends to adopt a multi-disciplinary approach, including economists as well as behaviourists in the projects. Autumn 2001, the centre will start an international Master Programme and Claes Beckman hopes there will be full engineering training focused on wireless communications a year later.
Gittan Cedervall
