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CITUS is software development company that has been member of Development Agency Zagreb-Technology Park for long time. From the beginning company vision and mission has been based on innovative and creative process of developing new ICT products. This process is hard and sometimes does not bring wanted results, but there is no other alternative but to find the way how to be more successful in bringing ideas to the reality and (possibly) to create commercial product that has “wau” effect. Recently CITUS has been awarded co-funding by BICRO and Technology Park Varazdin to implement proof-of-concept project that extends existing (and already awarded) project Conference@Net. The name of project is Conference@Net Kinect and it’s goal is to implement new way of manipulation with computer user interface – by using gestures made by body/hands/finger. We will speak about the creative process of “bringing the idea to the table”, articulating it so this new (and because of that possible not so understandable) idea to the potential partners/investors and the role of City of Zagreb and supporting institutions like Development Agency Zagreb, Technology Park Varazdin and BICRO. CITUS is member of Croatian Chamber of Economy IT Association, and CITUS CEO is Vice President of IT Association involved in projects like software start-up business, business innovation center's, technology parks, tehnopolises... mem
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Creative industry case: CITUS Ltd.
Tomislav Bronzin, CEOCITUS Ltd.
Croatian Chamber of Commerce IT Association Vice President
CITUS Ltd. – Who we are?• Research and Development of Complex
Information Systems• 10 employees with top education and
experience in international IT projects• 14 years in commercialization of innovations• Bringing the value proposition to our customers
through innovative and creative projects• Number of awards for innovation in IT
History of innovation and awards
• From beginning of „doing business” 1999.• Number of international awards:– INPEX, Pittsburgh, USA– Archimedes, Moscow, Russia– BIS, London, UK– CIGIF, Seoul, Korea– INST, Taiwain– INOVA, ARCA, Croatia
Some of the Awards
How to finance - history
• 2000. Bank Loan „subsidized” by Croatian Government – “small interest of 8%”– 7 years / 2 years grace period– Requested mortgage / private real estate, Guaranty
from Government agency and personal IOU
– Own investment of 50%– Return in full after we successfully developed, sold
our product and put it to end-of life
How to finance today – supporting institutions
• Business Innovation Center of Croatia - BICRO – Founded by the Croatian Government in 1998– It is a central institution in the national innovation
system for supporting innovation and technology advancement
– Number of programs / PoC – innovation in supporting proof-of-concept with 65% of funding
• BICRO Partners that helped us– Technology Park Varazdin – Development Agency Zagreb
What we are doing?• Human User Interface ("Natural UI")• Communication between human and computers
•Using Microsoft Kinect device to recognize hand/body gestures and translate it to commands to the computer user interface• Idea: • Develop algorithm to support more
than one user at the same time• Develop universal way to
replace keyboard/mouse/touch
The R&D Team
ContactTomislav Bronzin
[email protected]: @tbronzin
F: facebook.com/tbronzinwww.citus.hr
Croatian Chamber of Economy IT Association:http://www.hgk.hr/category/udruzenja/udruzenje-za-informacijske-tehnologije