WP3 Technology Transfer and Impact Management

This work package will implement an innovative approach to technology transfer for the spoke activities. Thanks to the creation of a Center for Ethical Technology Transfer and Impact Management, which will leverage expertise from the spoke’s affiliates, protection and valorization of results will be managed from early stages of R&D together with an evaluation of downstream economic, social, and environmental sustainability.

Collaboration between research institutions and industries will be strengthen through an innovation network linking stakeholders of the innovation ecosystem. In order to maximize impact, specific resources will be allocated to strengthen the capacity of supply chains (especially SMEs) to incorporate and market innovations, thanks to acceleration and spin-off creation tasks.