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H2020Staff exchange2019–2024

OpenInnoTrain · Open Innovation – Research Translation and Applied Knowledge Exchange in Practice through University-Industry-Cooperation

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2019-01-01 → 2024-06-30
EU contribution
€2,217,200
Participants
22
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Open Innovation – Research Translation and Applied Knowledge Exchange in Practice through University-Industry-Cooperation

The need for innovation through university-industry cooperation is more critical than ever. The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the vital role of knowledge creation and transmission across industries and disciplines. Identifying, developing, and scaling breakthrough technologies, and converting them into incremental, radical, or disruptive innovations that are widely accepted by users, customers, and communities is crucial. However, turning research into societal benefits rarely happens spontaneously. Mechanisms like stakeholder engagement and co-creation can create the conditions needed to foster innovations that meet current and future societal needs. The EU-funded OpenInnoTrain project successfully explored these mechanisms across four key areas, equipping over 150 researchers and practitioners from 38 countries through 5 Summer Schools and 143 individuals across Consortium Partner Institutions through 388 secondment months, providing tools and actionable knowledge to support their research and innovation efforts. OpenInnoTrain’s main objective has been to build and sustain a network of international and inter-sectoral organisations focused on research translation and knowledge sharing. Theoretical foundations, spanning multiple disciplines, were combined with practical insights from four key areas: • FinTech: applying technology to improve or innovate financial services • Industry 4.0: digitalisation of integrated, automated manufacturing • CleanTech: low-carbon technologies addressing environmental challenges • FoodTech: advanced technologies in food production, packaging, and distribution. The participating staff members, and broader research and innovation community through project events, such as summer schools, and openly accessible project research outputs, (including 51 publications, over 90% of them being Q1 (Scimago), A/A* (ABDC), with many more still in the pipeline), have developed new skills and challenged the status-quo through exposure to a new environment thus also having their career perspectives widened.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

The overarching objective of OPEN-INNO-Train is to form an international and inter-sectoral network of organisations collaboratively working on the joint research field of Open Innovation, University-Industry Cooperation and Research Translation. To facilitate Knowledge Development and Sharing in four contemporary areas - FinTech, Industry 4.0, CleanTech, FoodTech. For globally interconnected societies, scientific research has the potential to foster yet unrealised economic growth, competitiveness, and wellbeing. The conversion of research outputs into tangible outcomes, and, ultimately, sustainable impact is critically important and needs optimising.The process of converting research findings into economic and social benefits appears increasingly complex at a time when researchers often work in multidisciplinary teams, in a context of Open Innovation when cooperating with industry and other stakeholders. Illuminating it from the perspective of Research Translation, an approach increasingly gaining traction in the specific setting of University-Industry Collaboration, OPEN-INNO-TRAIN aims at opening the black box of knowledge conversion processes to generate and apply new insights from those four industry areas. Furthermore, OPEN-INNO-TRAIN encapsulates the development of robust Research Translation tools capable of facilitating the translation process of multidisciplinary research findings for the generation of impact. Combining scientific excellence from European and international universities, Research and Technology Organisations with hands on expertise from pioneering companies, OPEN-INNO-TRAIN will spearhead this sustainable venture using digital innovation hubs, co-tutelle, industrial PhDs, PPPs and training measures to encourage international cooperation among researchers and industry practitioners across disciplines whose final aim is to holistically foster, enhance and sustain over time the application of good research translation practices.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • ROYAL MELBOURNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SPAIN SL · MadridCoordinatorSpain
  • CARLSBERG AS · KobenhavnDenmark
  • INESC TEC - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIADE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES, TECNOLOGIA E CIENCIA · PortoPortugal
  • INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE-EXPERTS FORCOLLABORATIVE NETWORKS I.S.C.N. GESMBH · GRAZAustria
  • KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · KOBENHAVNDenmark
  • KONCAR INSTITUT ZA ELEKTROTEHNIKU D.O.O. · ZagrebCroatia
  • LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER PHOTONISCHE TECHNOLOGIEN E.V. · JenaGermany
  • LORIT CONSULTANCY LIMITED · EdinburghUnited Kingdom
  • NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO · Den HaagNetherlands
  • NOFIMA AS · TromsoNorway
  • OY MERINOVA AB · VaasaFinland
  • RADICAL INNOVATIONS GROUP AB · TampereFinland
  • ROYAL MELBOURNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY*RMIT UNIVERSITY · MelbourneAustralia
  • SOCIETA AGRICOLA SALCHETO SRL · Montepulciano SiItaly
  • SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU EKONOMSKI FAKULTET · ZagrebCroatia
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET GRAZ · GrazAustria
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT HAMBURG · HamburgGermany
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA · SienaItaly
  • UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA · BARCELONASpain
  • UNIVERSITETET I AGDER · KristiansandNorway
  • UPTEC ASSOCIACAO DE TRANSFERENCIA DE TECNOLOGIA DA ASPRELA · PortoPortugal
  • VAASAN YLIOPISTO · VaasaFinland

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union