Prof. Dr. Pedro-José Bueso Guillén, LL.M. Eur.

Laboratorio Jurídico-Empresarial

Universidad de Zaragoza

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Prof. Dr. Pedro-José Bueso Guillén, LL.M. Eur.

Professor for Commercial Law, Dept. for Enterprise Law,

University of Zaragoza.

Law School Co-ordinator, Legal & Business Laboratory, Technology Park Walqa

Workshop on

“Knowledge Society and Law.

Compared Experiences from Mediterranean Europe”

Rome, 26 April 2004

The Walqa LaboratoryThe Walqa Laboratory




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• Initiative Walqa– Technology Park Walqa

– Location and Installations• Advanced Laboratories UZ

– Facilities– Initial Goals– Research Areas LAW & BUSINESS

• Legal & Business Laboratory– Staff– Activities evolution

• Management• Specific Teaching LEFIS• Research

– Strenghts and Prospects

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• Goals– Aragón Point of Reference for e-business in

Spain– Improve Integration of SMEs in Internet and e-

Business– Adaptation of Compulsory and Occupational

Training to ICT– Infrastructures– Adoption by Society of ICT

• Stategic Actions– Wideband Network– Centre of Excellence– Technology Park– Alliance with University of Zaragoza

Initiative WalqaInitiative Walqa




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Technology Park WalqaTechnology Park Walqa

• Start of operations: January 2002• Promoters: Regional Government of Aragón and Town Council of Huesca

• Goal: To Became a Pole of Innovation and R&D in the Field of ITC, Internet and e-Commerce

• Nowadays managed by an Public Agency

• Technology Park Walqa is Member of:




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Location Map (I)Location Map (I)

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Location Map (II)Location Map (II)

Hacia Hacia HuescaHuesca

CEEI CEEI HuescaHuesca

Hacia Hacia ZaragozaZaragoza

Superficie del Parque:529.000 m2 = 52,9 Ha.

UNIVERSIDADUNIVERSIDAD




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Aerial View (II)Aerial View (II)




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Surface ViewSurface View




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Technology Park WalqaTechnology Park Walqa

To Achieve Its Goal • Concentration of a Critical Mass of ICT Companies

• Looking for Favouring the Growth of ICT Sector in Aragón

• Taking Maximum Advantage of Human Resources with High ICT Qualifications in Aragón Strategic Alliance with UZ:

• Degrees on Telecomunications and Informatics Engineering

• Research Teams

Advanced Laboratories UZ




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Advanced Laboratories UZAdvanced Laboratories UZ

Installations:

500 m2 Surface Area in Building No. 1 of

Technolgy Park Walqa

Operative since February 2003

Essential Element for Technology Park

Walqa to Became a Pole of Innovation and R&D in ICT,

Internet and e-Commerce:

Membership in IASP and APTE




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Advanced Laboratories UZAdvanced Laboratories UZ

Facilities (Common Use):• 76 Workstations• 3 Senior Offices• Technical Floor• ADSL Connection 512Kb to UZ Next: Optical Fiber Connection to RACI• Servers:

• 4 Servers SUN + 1 Disks Server: Domain Administration (Windows NT), Structural Management of Internal Network, Web Services (HTTP, ...), Firewall, Data Bases, Development, etc.• 1 Backup Robot• 1 SAI

• Computers:• Over 50 PCs: From Pentium Celeron 633MHz + 128MB RAM + 10GB HD Since Pentium IV + 512MB RAM + 60GB HD• OS Windows y Linux• Office & Specific Software

• Other Hardware:• Color Laser Printers• Scanners

• Computer Assisted Teaching Area




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Advanced Laboratories UZ Origins

Advanced Laboratories UZ Origins

Promotion Institute of Aragón+

University of Zaragoza+

Technology Institute of AragónCollaboration Agreement on the Promotion of

Training of High Qualified Human Resources and of Increasing of R+D+I Capabilities in the field of

ICT in Aragón

June 2001




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Advanced Laboratories UZInitial Goals

Advanced Laboratories UZInitial Goals

• Teaching:• Applied Lectures (Compulsory Training)

• LL.M. Thesis

• Ph. D. Thesis

• Teaching for Professionals and Companies

• Research & Development:• Research Proyects

• Support to ICT Companies Helping Technology Park Companies in:

• Test Beds for New Products

• Co-operation Programmes




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Advanced Laboratories UZResearch Areas

Advanced Laboratories UZResearch Areas

In order to Achive the Initial Goals Were Created FIVE Laboratories in Tecnology Park Walqa:

• Engineering Laboratories:

• UMTS Applications Laboratory

• Radiofrecuency (RF) Laboratory

• Broadband Laboratory

• Advanced Computing Laboratory

At the moment: In Redeployment

• Legal & Business Laboratory




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Legal & Business LaboratoryStaff

Legal & Business LaboratoryStaff

Senior Staff (Ph. D.):

• 2 Co-ordinators of the Business School

• 1 Co-ordinator of the Law School

• 1 Senior Manager in situ

Junior Staff (LL. M.):

• 4 Permanent Grant-Holders

• 3-6 Non-Permanent Grant-Holders




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Legal & Business LaboratoryActivities: Evolution

Legal & Business LaboratoryActivities: Evolution

Regarding the Initial Goals:• Teaching:

– No Compulsory Training– Focusing On Postgraduate Specific

Training

• Research:– Oriented to R&D with Companies

• Support to ICT Companies:– Not Only Technology Park Walqa– Extending Support to Governmental

Organizations

• New - Management: – Events




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Legal & Business LaboratoryActivities: Management

Legal & Business LaboratoryActivities: Management

• APTICE

• Workshops and Seminars:– Research Seminar on Accounting and

Digital Enterprise (2003)– Next: Seminar on IS Observatories

(2004)• Supporting:

– Workshop on Teaching of e-Government (2003)

– Seminar on e-Government: Teaching and Enterprise (2003)

– Summer Course on e-Commerce (2003)

– Next: Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA’04 (2004)




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Legal & Business LaboratoryActivities: Specific TeachingLegal & Business LaboratoryActivities: Specific Teaching

• Direct-Linked Postgraduate Studies:– MeBA– D+TIC Initiative

• Supporting:– e-Business Strategies and Models

– LEFIS

Master en AdministraciónElectrónica de Empresas




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Legal & Business LaboratoryActivities: Research (I)

Legal & Business LaboratoryActivities: Research (I)

• Emerging Research Groups (20 Researchers 11 Ph. D.)– Financial and Economic Analysis of

the Digital Enterprise– e-Commercial Promotion,

Contracting and Taxing– Data Protection and Digital

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Legal & Business LaboratoryActivities: Research (II)

Legal & Business LaboratoryActivities: Research (II)

• Observatory of the Information Society of Aragón (OASI)

• Proyect Equal• PROFIT 2003 Next: PROFIT 2004• Next: Chamber of Commerce




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Legal & Business LaboratoryStrengths

Legal & Business LaboratoryStrengths

• Need of Such a Partner on Legal & Business Matters Usefulness

• Real Interactive Combination of Law & Business Interdisciplinarity

• Institutional Roots Neutrality• Aviability of High Qualified Researchers

to Fill Gaps

Complementarity• UZ Research Organization

Flexibility




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Legal & Business LaboratoryProspects

Legal & Business LaboratoryProspects

• To Improve Strengths• To Consolidate Basic Structure

– also Legally Autonomy• To Take On Core Functions of

Centre of Excellence (Now Being Reconsidered)

• To Develope Tasks in e-Government and to Combine Them with Tasks in e-Commerce and e-Business

A Real Chance forInstitutional Supported R&D




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Thank you very much for your attention!

Phone: +34 976 761 384

Fax: +34 976 761 499

e-mail:[email protected]

http://ptwalqa.com/labje/

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