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In this paper we will report on the founding of Ultra Pictura as a case study of technology transfer from academia to industry. Ultra Pictura specializes in capturing and recreating animated painterly artwork techniques. By means of a proprietary digital paint and render platform Ultra Pictura offers animation production studios a service solution that enables artists to create totally new and original 2D painterly animation styles for animated backgrounds, characters as well as special effects.
Ultra Pictura was founded in October 2010 as a spin-off initiative of the Interdisciplinary Institute for BroadBand Technology (IBBT). IBBT is a research institute founded by the Flemish government to stimulate R&D in innovative ICT services and applications in close collaboration with government and industry. By offering both research support and go to-market assistance, IBBT creates the right eco-system for the translation of research results into marketable products creating real social and economic benefits. Through the use of tools and hands-on training and coaching, researchers (academics as well as individuals) learn to take their innovations to market and thus maximize the valorisation potential of the research results. The final step in the IBBT’s innovation pipeline is the venture stage which ultimately leads to the creation of new innovative start-ups.
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Flemish government agency for Innovation by Science and Technology.
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We gratefully express our gratitude to the European Fund for Regional Development, the Flemish Government, and to IBBT which have kindly funded part of our research activities.
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Di Fiore, F., Flerackers, E., Van Reeth, F. (2012). Technology Transfer at IBBT-EDM: Case Study in the Computer Graphics Domain. In: Dill, J., Earnshaw, R., Kasik, D., Vince, J., Wong, P. (eds) Expanding the Frontiers of Visual Analytics and Visualization. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2804-5_28
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