Europe, despite hosting only 7% of the world's population, boasts 20% of the world's investment in research and innovation, producing a third of all high-quality scientific publications. It is a world leader in the innovative sectors such as the chemical industry and the innovative materials used within the heath industry for health, the environment, cultural heritage conservation, renewable energy, textile engineering and regenerative medicine. It is therefore Europe's job to turn excellence into success in new imaginative markets. This is particularly true for innovations based on radically new technologies (pioneering innovations) or radically new markets (disruptive innovations). In this context, the theme of technological transfer and, more generally, the theme of the transformation of knowledge into productive value, has always been at the heart of research and innovation policies. The fully globalized dimensions of today's dynamics are increasingly pushing us to see innovation as the real determining factor on which to base the competitive capacity of an international scientific/economic system. This competitive capacity appears increasingly structurally assured by an innovation that sees scientific research as its fundamental engine, its characteristic element. The ability to produce knowledge and at the same time the ability to quickly transform that knowledge into an economic value and thus to quickly produce high-quality innovation, is the key to a country's competitive growth and success. The process of creating innovation is a precise linear sequence, ranging from scientific discovery, to experimental verification in applied science, to subsequent inventions, to imitative and diffusive processes. In this model, clear and well-defined areas of expertise are identified between basic research, applied research, technological transfer, industrial development, and consequently the areas of action of universities, public and/or private research centres, institutions, companies creating that inspirational model of the Triple Helix
Knowledge Transfer is a best practice for the whole scientific community
Emanuele Fiore
2020
Abstract
Europe, despite hosting only 7% of the world's population, boasts 20% of the world's investment in research and innovation, producing a third of all high-quality scientific publications. It is a world leader in the innovative sectors such as the chemical industry and the innovative materials used within the heath industry for health, the environment, cultural heritage conservation, renewable energy, textile engineering and regenerative medicine. It is therefore Europe's job to turn excellence into success in new imaginative markets. This is particularly true for innovations based on radically new technologies (pioneering innovations) or radically new markets (disruptive innovations). In this context, the theme of technological transfer and, more generally, the theme of the transformation of knowledge into productive value, has always been at the heart of research and innovation policies. The fully globalized dimensions of today's dynamics are increasingly pushing us to see innovation as the real determining factor on which to base the competitive capacity of an international scientific/economic system. This competitive capacity appears increasingly structurally assured by an innovation that sees scientific research as its fundamental engine, its characteristic element. The ability to produce knowledge and at the same time the ability to quickly transform that knowledge into an economic value and thus to quickly produce high-quality innovation, is the key to a country's competitive growth and success. The process of creating innovation is a precise linear sequence, ranging from scientific discovery, to experimental verification in applied science, to subsequent inventions, to imitative and diffusive processes. In this model, clear and well-defined areas of expertise are identified between basic research, applied research, technological transfer, industrial development, and consequently the areas of action of universities, public and/or private research centres, institutions, companies creating that inspirational model of the Triple HelixI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
