TNO’s mission is to make a substantial contribution to the competitive power of companies and organisations, to the economy and to the quality of society as a whole. As a large contract research organisation. In two of the key research areas of TNO, “Quality of Life” and “ICT”, the institutes TNO Telecom and TNO STB are active.
 

Telenor is the leading telecom, IT and media company in Norway. In addition to expertise in the more technical areas of telecom research, Telenor R&D has broad experience within the social aspects of telephony and ICT.  We work with future oriented research focused on ICT in work, learning and private life.  Telenor R&D collaborates extensively with leading research establishments nationally and internationally.
 

Chimera the Institute for Socio-technical Innovation and Research at the University of Essex is a post-disciplinary centre employing social scientists, computer scientists, engineers, anthropologists, psychologists, HCI practitioners and interface designers specialising in ‘socio-technical’ research, analysis and consulting. Chimera carries out research which combines the social and technological sciences to generate insights into personal and social use of information and communication technologies, ground technological innovation in an understanding of people, and provide analysis to support evidence-based 'information society' strategies and policies in the public and commercial domain

Eurescom, the European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH, was founded in 1991 by major European network operators and service providers. The organisation provides comprehensive services for initiating, managing and supporting distributed collaborative research programmes to network operators, service providers, suppliers and vendors. The success of multinational, multidisciplinary projects heavily depends on a reliable and flexible infrastructure that offers efficient administrative and technical support. Eurescom has developed an infrastructure that has proven to meet all requirements of multinational, collaborative projects with the lowest possible overhead.