The manufacturing industry in Europe is struggling to regain its competitiveness and cultivate sustainability. This strongly depends on Innovation, targeting new consumer needs and societal challenges. To accomplish that feat, strong public and private investments in R&D are needed, but also a growing capability to transform the created knowledge into new products, processes, services and business models. Over the past years a very rich knowledge portfolio has been developed, supported by EC funded research programmes. However, the exploitation of this accumulated knowledge is widely acknowledged to be far from its maximum potential, due to many and complex factors including lack of information dissemination, competences, market access, resources, or simply because their cross fertilisation with other sectors is not evaluated. Towards improving the exploitation of generated knowledge and of the knowledge that will derive from ongoing and future activities in Europe, the main goal of the EXPLORE project is to unleash the full potential of the generated knowledge and enable its use in developing advanced products and services to address manufacturing industries' challenges and needs. The exploitation of R&D results will be performed mainly by gathering resources to disseminate (models, case studies, demonstrators) and prepare commercial exploitation, using cross-fertilisation, stimulating education and fostering standardisation. The main prerequisite for allowing this gathering of results is a carefully designed and implemented software platform that will allow the systematic capturing and reuse of R&D results along their life cycle. In order to detail this concept, the EXPLORE framework and its main ideas are presented, serving also as the introduction for the functional requirements of what will be called Innovation and Exploitation Platform. Starting from the requirements of the envisioned platform, this deliverable includes and identification of the typical user roles, as well as general and specific workflows. Moreover, standard methodologies for the architectural design of the web-based platform are presented. In addition, Business Processing Modelling are utilised for the formalisation of the requirements and for later deriving the specifications. Specific workflows will be defined for several basic functionalities as collecting, validating and publishing information. Finally, the platform high level architecture is presented, which comprises its main components and layers, as well as the supporting tools and technologies, the major workflow, and finally the conceptual data model as basis of for the development. This deliverable takes inputs from the parallel Task 2.1 "Setting the exploitation framework" regarding the exploitation framework strategy and operational instruments, including all the types of models and templates that may be used for describing, transferring, exploiting and funding the results of European projects. Further to that, the deliverable will provide an output to Task 2.3 "Implementing the Innovation and Exploitation Platform", which is responsible for the software implementation and validation. The Task 2.4 "Developing the Exploitation Handbook" that will provide the guidelines for the successful use of the Innovation and Exploitation Platform will also be based on Deliverable 2.2.
Explore project D2.2: Specification of the Innovation and Exploitation Platform
G Copani
2014
Abstract
The manufacturing industry in Europe is struggling to regain its competitiveness and cultivate sustainability. This strongly depends on Innovation, targeting new consumer needs and societal challenges. To accomplish that feat, strong public and private investments in R&D are needed, but also a growing capability to transform the created knowledge into new products, processes, services and business models. Over the past years a very rich knowledge portfolio has been developed, supported by EC funded research programmes. However, the exploitation of this accumulated knowledge is widely acknowledged to be far from its maximum potential, due to many and complex factors including lack of information dissemination, competences, market access, resources, or simply because their cross fertilisation with other sectors is not evaluated. Towards improving the exploitation of generated knowledge and of the knowledge that will derive from ongoing and future activities in Europe, the main goal of the EXPLORE project is to unleash the full potential of the generated knowledge and enable its use in developing advanced products and services to address manufacturing industries' challenges and needs. The exploitation of R&D results will be performed mainly by gathering resources to disseminate (models, case studies, demonstrators) and prepare commercial exploitation, using cross-fertilisation, stimulating education and fostering standardisation. The main prerequisite for allowing this gathering of results is a carefully designed and implemented software platform that will allow the systematic capturing and reuse of R&D results along their life cycle. In order to detail this concept, the EXPLORE framework and its main ideas are presented, serving also as the introduction for the functional requirements of what will be called Innovation and Exploitation Platform. Starting from the requirements of the envisioned platform, this deliverable includes and identification of the typical user roles, as well as general and specific workflows. Moreover, standard methodologies for the architectural design of the web-based platform are presented. In addition, Business Processing Modelling are utilised for the formalisation of the requirements and for later deriving the specifications. Specific workflows will be defined for several basic functionalities as collecting, validating and publishing information. Finally, the platform high level architecture is presented, which comprises its main components and layers, as well as the supporting tools and technologies, the major workflow, and finally the conceptual data model as basis of for the development. This deliverable takes inputs from the parallel Task 2.1 "Setting the exploitation framework" regarding the exploitation framework strategy and operational instruments, including all the types of models and templates that may be used for describing, transferring, exploiting and funding the results of European projects. Further to that, the deliverable will provide an output to Task 2.3 "Implementing the Innovation and Exploitation Platform", which is responsible for the software implementation and validation. The Task 2.4 "Developing the Exploitation Handbook" that will provide the guidelines for the successful use of the Innovation and Exploitation Platform will also be based on Deliverable 2.2.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
