New research institute will mine opportunity from digital’s boundary-crossing complexity

 

The internet of things, picture by Steve Jurvetson

A new UTS research institute enabling agile and unusual research collaborations will seek novel breakthroughs in data use and new products by exploiting technology's blurring and break-up of age-old silos in industry and the professions.

Based with the Faculty of Engineering and IT, the Knowledge Economy Institute (KEi) will work collaboratively with leading innovation consortia, including SIRCA and the Communications Alliance Internet of Things (IoT) Think Tank.

Former SIRCA CEO Mike Briers will lead the KEi as UTS's first industry professor. He brings vast experience and insight gained at SIRCA, itself a collaboration of more than 35 universities, mainly in Australia and New Zealand, developing global data and advanced tools for financial research and innovation.

Working in the online realm, now dubbed the 'Internet of Things', the institute's researchers will focus on utilising the vast and varied array of data collected globally to develop useful new financial models, products and even processes of value to industry and other sectors.

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