Welcome to the EITA

"Coming Together is a Beginning; Keeping Together is Progress; Working Together is Success" 

Henry Ford

- EITA's Knowledge Platform

The Emerging Information Technologies Association (EITA) is a federated, non-political, non-religious and non-profit international organization (virtual organization) dedicated to advancing the frontier of emerging technologies and services to build a creative and innovative economy - a knowledge-based new digital economy for the 21st century.

The Emerging Information Technologies Association (EITA) helps bring new campus technologies to the market. Through research collaborations and partnerships, community innovation, industry support and commercialization opportunities, businesses can benefit from our expertise and technologies while increasing their own innovation potential.

The EITA Entrepreneurship Community is a hub of interest and pursuits in the entrepreneurial community, where practitioners, investors, regulators, professors and researchers come together to develop ideas and contribute to building an emerging new economy and culture.

Equally important, the EITA website (http://www.eitc.org) is dedicated to building shared knowledge and vocabulary among experts from different disciplinary backgrounds so that they can collaborate more effectively to address the challenges mentioned above.

- Centers of Excellence

Research, Innovation, and Commercialization:

• Research - to conduct pioneering research in key areas of Emerging Technologies and Services,
• Innovation - to make fundamental discoveries, generate innovative solutions to practical problems,
• Commercialization - to develop new technologies for commercial applications.

Our team members around the world are doing exciting work that could impact their fields for many years to come. We think of some of these people primarily as "inventors"; they focus on creating new technologies. We call others "visionaries" because they show how technology can be put to new or better uses. "Humanitarians" are using technology to expand opportunity or inform public policy. "Pioneers" are exploring new frontiers that will spawn future innovations; these breakthroughs will be picked up by future "entrepreneurs" who turn emerging technologies into viable businesses.

- The EITA R&D and Venture Forums 

Bridging Disciplines:

[10 Steps To Success]

EITA provides an exciting forum for education, exchange and promotion for the global R&D community, where academia, industry and government can come together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems, concerns and goals.

Currently, the Emerging Information Technologies Association (EITA) is supporting the following high-tech R&D and entrepreneurship forums around the world: (the EITA forums).

- Building a Knowledge Economy

Universities play an important role in determining a region's ability to innovate and transform new ideas into economic activity. Not only do they educate the local workforce (creating human capital) and generate intellectual property, they also contribute indirectly through basic research activities. While these basic research activities have no direct commercial value, they help create and drive industry development in unpredictable ways.

Understanding whether innovative industries in high-tech industries benefit from academic research and development activities of regional institutions will help evaluate tools that can be used in technology-based economic development strategies.

The empirical analysis of the relationship between research activity and high-tech employment aims to provide information for policymakers concerned with the ability of global regions to maintain their economic base of knowledge-based industries in the long term.

- Entrepreneurial Creativity For Innovation

"Entrepreneurial creativity" is the ability to develop new ideas and solve problems. It is the ability to foresee the future and generate ideas, solutions, and innovations before they are needed. It is the ability to solve a customer or client problem before the customer realizes the problem exists. 

"Innovation" is fundamental to successful business development. Innovation is about taking an idea and turning it into something valuable and relevant. "Creativity" is the ability to see the world in new ways, discover hidden patterns, make connections between seemingly disparate things, and generate new ideas. Innovation often drives creativity, but creativity does not always lead to innovation.

Creative and innovative "entrepreneurs" can identify opportunities and create new value for their customers. To be a creative and visionary entrepreneur, you must have the right mindset.

Entrepreneurial innovation is the ability to turn ideas into reality. It is about finding new ways to do things and make them better. Entrepreneurial innovation is about creating new products or services, improving processes, or finding new markets for existing products or services.