TECH2MARKET · Research and innovation management and commercialization
FP6 — Marie Curie Actions (Human Resources and Mobility)
- Duration
- 2004-07-01 → 2008-06-30
- EU contribution
- €128,772
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- TOK
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Results in brief
Final Activity Report Summary - TECH2MARKET (Research and innovation management and commercialisation)
The objective of the project was the transfer of knowledge in research and innovation management and commercialisation into the company through the recruitment of an external researcher with extensive knowledge and experience in the relevant areas of competencies. The following activities were part of the fellow's responsibilities: coordination of technology assessments, technology benchmarking, intellectual property research and protection, detailed definition of product or service, position of product in the market, standards and regulations, market research (customers characterisation, market segments, structure, competitors, and potential for development), marketing issues (pricing policy, sales and distribution policies, promotion, dissemination), production and operations issues (production process, suppliers, production costs, production budgets), financial issues (capital requirements, funding, projections) as well as risks, problems, and assumptions in the research and innovation process.
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Project objective
Critical Software - the host organization - is a spin-off company from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, andhas been active in the development of technologies and solutions for mission and business critical systems,since 1998 The company has excellent t echnical resources, including many Phd's and Msc's, and a strongresearch investment policy that has already generated innovative research results. The company has more than12 people involved in research and technology development, out of a total of 65 empl oyees.However, as opposed to the strong technological know-how (as expected in a spin-off) the company lackscompetencies in technology and innovation management, specially in what concerns the exploitation of resultsfrom research and innovation processes, i.e. the competencies required to turn innovative technologies intoinnovative commercial products.To bring the required competencies into the company, we propose to initiate a knowledge transfer processthrough the MCF program and thereby host an experience d researcher for a period of 24 months. Main targetsof the knowledge transfer process will be the key people involved in technology, innovation, and researchmanagement within the company.The competencies to be transferred include: technology assessment, in tellectual properly management,technology commercialization, business planning, marketing, innovation financing, technology transfer, amongothers.The acquisition of these new competencies has the potential to drive a new stage in the company developmentand enable the creation of innovative products from the considerable research efforts of the company.The MCF fellowship hereby proposed clearly fits the objectives of the Transfer of Knowledge (TOK) action(development scheme) as it proposes to transfer compet encies that are generally recognized to be missing inless-favoured regions of the EU. This is particularly true in Portugal, where academic #
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Participants
- CRITICAL SOFTWARE SA · COIMBRACoordinatorPortugal
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