The present deliverable stems from Tasks 3.1 and 3.2 ("Selecting projects and exploitable results" and "Detailed characterization of exploitable results") as well as partially from Task 3.3 "Evaluating, clustering and final validation of the exploitable results". These tasks are core in EXPLORE as they are responsible for the whole identification, selection, and characterization of the exploitable R&D results, the "raw material" of the project. It is widely acknowledged that there is a vast amount of accumulated knowledge deriving directly from research activities in Europe, namely R&D projects, that remains unexploited. In fact, the transformation of this knowledge into innovation and ultimately into novel products and services with commercial value can be greatly improved. From here, we can define the meaning of "Exploitable R&D Result" as an outcome of an R&D project such as a technology, or a methodology, that has potential to be commercially exploited in the market, thus creating economic value, both to the developer and to the buyer/user. It is possible - and frequent - that before this exploitation, the R&D result may require additional investments, such as further development to put the technology closer to the market requirements, or to be demonstrated in an industrial environment, among others. The EXPLORE project targets two different stages of exploitation for the selected R&D results: ? those that were not exploited yet, and whose first exploitation is being sought; ? R&D results which were already exploited in a certain application domain, industrial sector, or specific setting, but to which cross-fertilization of the technology in other application, sector, or user may be realized. In this context of exploitation of R&D results, EXPLORE's WP3 aims at identifying and describing exploitable results of European research projects under the NMP theme focusing on Production Technologies. A wide set of European projects was addressed and scanned to selected the exploitable results. A total of 80 FP7 projects and 72 FP6 projects emerged from extensive search and analysis of the CORDIS portal, complemented by specific work of the project partners. From these, a total of 22 FP7 and 17 FP6 projects had the participation of EXPLORE Partners. This was the chosen sample of projects. From this sample, a total of 45 R&D results with exploitation potential were already identified and characterized. These results were then inserted and are available in the Innovation and Exploitation Platform (from WP2). Since the goal was to gather 50 exploitable results by the end of the project (August 2015), the 45 collected until now is a very promising indicator of the potential to gather a much higher number of relevant results during the project. This document is structured as follows: next, the methodology to identify, select, and characterize the R&D results is detailed, and then the analysis on the R&D results is presented and described. Also noteworthy, after the Conclusion and Next Steps, are the Annexes, which present firstly the template for characterization of the R&D results, then the list of all the FP7 and FP6 projects analysed (and those participated by EXPLORE Partners), and finally all the 45 received R&D results' templates.

Explore project D3.1: List of exploitable results and conditions

Giacomo Copani
2014

Abstract

The present deliverable stems from Tasks 3.1 and 3.2 ("Selecting projects and exploitable results" and "Detailed characterization of exploitable results") as well as partially from Task 3.3 "Evaluating, clustering and final validation of the exploitable results". These tasks are core in EXPLORE as they are responsible for the whole identification, selection, and characterization of the exploitable R&D results, the "raw material" of the project. It is widely acknowledged that there is a vast amount of accumulated knowledge deriving directly from research activities in Europe, namely R&D projects, that remains unexploited. In fact, the transformation of this knowledge into innovation and ultimately into novel products and services with commercial value can be greatly improved. From here, we can define the meaning of "Exploitable R&D Result" as an outcome of an R&D project such as a technology, or a methodology, that has potential to be commercially exploited in the market, thus creating economic value, both to the developer and to the buyer/user. It is possible - and frequent - that before this exploitation, the R&D result may require additional investments, such as further development to put the technology closer to the market requirements, or to be demonstrated in an industrial environment, among others. The EXPLORE project targets two different stages of exploitation for the selected R&D results: ? those that were not exploited yet, and whose first exploitation is being sought; ? R&D results which were already exploited in a certain application domain, industrial sector, or specific setting, but to which cross-fertilization of the technology in other application, sector, or user may be realized. In this context of exploitation of R&D results, EXPLORE's WP3 aims at identifying and describing exploitable results of European research projects under the NMP theme focusing on Production Technologies. A wide set of European projects was addressed and scanned to selected the exploitable results. A total of 80 FP7 projects and 72 FP6 projects emerged from extensive search and analysis of the CORDIS portal, complemented by specific work of the project partners. From these, a total of 22 FP7 and 17 FP6 projects had the participation of EXPLORE Partners. This was the chosen sample of projects. From this sample, a total of 45 R&D results with exploitation potential were already identified and characterized. These results were then inserted and are available in the Innovation and Exploitation Platform (from WP2). Since the goal was to gather 50 exploitable results by the end of the project (August 2015), the 45 collected until now is a very promising indicator of the potential to gather a much higher number of relevant results during the project. This document is structured as follows: next, the methodology to identify, select, and characterize the R&D results is detailed, and then the analysis on the R&D results is presented and described. Also noteworthy, after the Conclusion and Next Steps, are the Annexes, which present firstly the template for characterization of the R&D results, then the list of all the FP7 and FP6 projects analysed (and those participated by EXPLORE Partners), and finally all the 45 received R&D results' templates.
2014
Istituto di Sistemi e Tecnologie Industriali Intelligenti per il Manifatturiero Avanzato - STIIMA (ex ITIA)
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