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Didn't we get MP3s this way? Or is that a slightly different pathway
by foobarian 2y ago
Didn't we get MP3s this way? Or is that a slightly different pathway
- fxtentacle 2y agoFraunhofer is (by now) only financed 30% through tax money and 70% comes from the royalties on their past developments like MP3 and H264 and H265 and MPEG-H. Anyway, Fraunhofer gets recurring tax funding. What voize got is a one-off research grant to a group of companies: - voize - Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (a medical university) - Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH, Berlin (a government AI research lab) - Connext Communication GmbH, Paderborn (a tech company) - Kleeblatt Pflegeheime gGmbH, Ludwigsburg (a retirement home, i.e. potential end user) - Pflegewohnhaus am Waldkrankenhaus gGmbH, Berlin (another retirement home) For this grant type, it's quite common that you pay the inventors, some assistant companies, some researchers, and some end users a lump sum to force them all to work together on commercializing the invention.
- w-m 2y agoThat’s not quite right for Fraunhofer: The financing model is also heavily dependent on research grants. The base funding is indeed around 30%. But another 40% are from publicly funded research projects. The last 30% are from research contracted by industry. In 2023, license fee revenue was €157M / €2991M, so roughly 5% of total contract research volume. https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/about-fraunhofer/profile-structure/facts-and-figures/finances.html https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/about-fraunhofer/profile-struct...
- fxtentacle 2y agoThanks! Today I learned... :)