Methodologies to bring innovative environmental technology RD results into the market

摘要

It has been widely recognised that too few projects initiated under both national as well as EU funded research projects find their way to commercial exploitation. It has also become clear that there is a lack of communication/ information channels between the R&D institutions and financial institutions as providers of financial support for the commercial exploitation of the R&D results, and industry. The author addresses the problems of: sub-optimal exploitation of EU public research results fragmentation of stakeholders & policy framework which result in an insufficient translation into market innovation of Europe's scientific excellence in renewable energy. The main purpose of the new methodology is to apply an innovative&structuredmethodologyforquicker& broader exploitation of existing scientific RTD results licensing & spin-off creation based on scientific RTD results. The main steps of the methodology are to identify the most promising RTD results that are ready for innovation activities agree on a common long term vision for each of them design for each of them a series of business model options that will be supported by private investors. The overall objective of the methodology is to address the technical barriers for transforming scientific research results into viable innovations, to unite all stakeholders relevant for technology transfer (research, industry, investors, technology transfer professionals), to promote the market uptake of renewable electricity and renewable heating and cooling technologies by European companies or start-ups, and to distil best practices & policy recommendations.