The Eclipse Foundation has been a partner in many publicly funded research projects since 2013. We help organisations to successfully create, publish, and sustain an open source software platform, making the results of the research projects available for commercial or public exploitation.
The Eclipse Foundation welcomes the opportunity to work with new industry research projects. If you would like more information please contact us at research@eclipse.org
Learn more about both current and successfully completed projects where we have partnered.
What we offer:
Sustainability
for research results (source code, documentation, …)
Guidance
in creating and managing an open source project
Expertise
in community building and support
Eclipse Ecosystem
visibility in, and interaction with the wider ecosystem
Open Collaboration
best practices
Open Source: the catalyst among academics, SMEs, and large organisations
Academics bring new innovations that enable better productivity and new processes in large organisations. SMEs industrialize the innovation transferred through open source projects to support a product-based or expertise-based business model.
Research Exploitation
The Eclipse Foundation experts enable the research team to create, evolve and maintain open source software projects that capture the results of the research.
The proven processes of the Eclipse Foundation and services for IP management and community building assist the research partners throughout the lifecycle of the research project. They ensure that the open source code can be used at any given time for research or commercial exploitation.
These processes are set out in the Eclipse Foundation governance model, the Eclipse Development Process and the Eclipse IP management practices. In addition, all code is made available under the Eclipse Public License, a commercial-friendly Open Source license approved by the Open Source Initiative.
More exploitation opportunities
Exploitation is driven by availability, open governance, quality, and IP cleanliness. Providing the platform under an OSS license such as the Eclipse Public License supports these goals very well. Users and adopters can trust the open governance model that provides a level playing field and commercial exploitation under this business-friendly open source license. The Eclipse IP process ensures that the IP created is tracked and properly managed.
Extensibility, sustainability and maturity
In some industries, platforms and tools must be available for a lifecycle of well over 20 years. With the experience of the Eclipse Foundation and the Eclipse ecosystem, it is possible to provide long-term support and design the platform in a way that allows for continuous and open innovation.
Industrial applications require measurable indicators of project maturity. The Eclipse Foundation deploys assessment processes and tools in Polarsys to help members evaluate the maturity of Eclipse projects and to support projects in achieving higher maturity levels.
Funding organisations
The Eclipse Foundation has been a partner in many publicly funded research projects since 2013. We help organisations to successfully create, publish, and sustain an open source software platform, making the results of the research projects available for commercial or public exploitation.
The Eclipse Foundation is a Partner in these Projects
The Research team is supporting these groups
- Models for Privacy Engineering
Sharing practices for privacy engineering based on models. This interest group focuses on the sharing of practices for privacy engineering based on the use of models.
- OpenHW
This working group is a joint initiative of the Eclipse Foundation AISBL and its partner the OpenHW Group. The overarching goal of this working group is to engage in initiatives complementing the general work program of the OpenHW Group that are of strategic interest to the joint members of Eclipse Foundation and OpenHW Group that relate to the European marketplace, including strategic market analysis, development of technical requirements, and digital sovereignty.
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Contact Us
The Eclipse Foundation welcomes the opportunity to work with new industry research projects. We specialize in creating open collaborative development projects and the dissemination of the technology to the larger community. If you would like more information please contact us at research@eclipse.org
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