• How Small Industry Labs Can Thrive Through Open Research Giovane Moura Based in Arnhem, The Netherlands Giovane is a Data Scientist with SIDN Labs (.nl registry) and a Assistant Professor at TU Delft, in the Netherlands. • He works on security and Internet measurements research projects. • You can reach him at http://giovane-moura.nl/More 6 min read Share Drawing on lessons from 13 years of collaboration with academia, this guest post from SIDN Labs shows how small registries can build and sustain impactful open research partnerships with universities, from shaping shared agendas to turning results into operational improvements. • Over the past 13 years, SIDN Labs has built collaboration models that are not so common in the world of internet infrastructure: asmall, mission-driven tech companyworking in deep, long-term partnerships with universities. • We published them as anACM SIGCOMM CCR editorial (PDF). • Here, we summarise what we’ve learned from this journey - both the differentcollaboration modelswe’ve developed, and what it takes to successfullyrun an industry research teaminside a small organisation.
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- SIDN Labs, a small Dutch internet‑infrastructure company, demonstrates how limited‑resource industry labs can sustain impactful open research partnerships with universities. Over 13 years, the lab has allocated 6 % of its annual revenue to research, enabling long‑term collaboration and the publication of findings in top venues. It offers five partnership models-internships, data sharing, informal joint projects, secondments, and formal collaborations-each suited to different maturity levels. These arrangements have produced peer‑reviewed papers, operational improvements, and even staff hires from student projects. SIDN’s experience shows that flexible, budget‑dedicated models can bridge industry and academia, benefiting both research output and service quality.
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