Missions: Research, Education and Technology Transfer
The Idiap Research Institute was created in 1991 with one very precise mission in mind: research. This mission is still at the heart of the activities of the institute. All the fundamental and applied research undertaken at the institute is aimed at facilitating man-machine interactions, as well as developing multimedia information management. The institute also supports education by offering numerous courses at universities and institutes of higher learning as well as by regularly hosting interns and young researchers working towards their doctorates. Concerned with building bridges between the sometimes hermetic research world and the more exposed world of the private economy, the institute also pursues a mission of valorization for which it can count on numerous partnerships as well as on IdeArk. This spin-off makes it possible to ensure a rapid transfer of acquired knowledge to the industrial sector and to assist in the commercial exploitation of these discoveries.
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