VITALISE D4.8 Commercialisation Potential of Research
Creators: name: Dr.  Giourka Paraskevi
name: Thrash Adriane
name: Spyridis Argyris
name: Kiosse Lamprini
name: Gagani Elena
name: Gaganis Christos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Research conducted within the infrastructure and services offered by Living Labs (LLs) can lead to the production of a wide range of findings some of which have the potential to become competitive products or services of benefit to society. Commercialisation support activities are designed within VITALISE project with a purpose to increase the value of the research results produced in LLs from a social and economic perspective. Research results that meet a real market need may provide competitive advantages with respect to existing alternatives, thus making them good candidates for commercialization. Within this context, D4.6 “Boosting Commercialisation potential of research results”, as part of WP4, aims to design and deliver a two-day bootcamp within the ENoLL Annual Conference “Open Living Lab Days” for building-up entrepreneurial skills and capacities with a roadmap on how to transform knowledge into impactful solutions of high commercialisation potential. The VITALISE project grants free Transnational Access to external researchers from multiple disciplines to the project’s Livings Lab Research Infrastructures. The external researchers approved for Transational Access will have the opportunity to conduct research studies in the available infrastructures and be granted Virtual Access to datasets collected during the Joint Research Activities of the project for further analysis. The provision of Transnational Access will be implemented through three (3) Open Calls that will be conducted in: (i) March 2022, (ii) December 2022 and (iii) May 2023. The bootcamp will empower Transnational Access researchers to advance themselves, their team and their organisations and accelerate their efforts to reach the market. The acceleration bootcamp is built upon the Lean Startup Theory, and uses practical exercises to assist the participants in developing their business strategy and tactics towards commercialisation. The methodological approach adopted facilitates understanding, reflection, and adaptation. In addition, this deliverable (D4.8) includes preliminary work on the evaluation framework for assessing the innovation potential of each research conducted during the Transnational and Virtual Access research conducted in VITALISE. To this purpose, the Innovation Radar Methodology and the Innovation Readiness Level Framework by KTH are here adapted to formulate the VITALISE approach for assessing the innovation and commercialisation potential of research results. The purpose of this document is to: Present the background of acceleration bootcamps. Describe the scope and the content of the VITALISE bootcamp and outline rules for team selection and time schedule for the two-day bootcamps to be delivered during the project. Introduce a preliminary evaluation framework for assessing the innovation and commercialisation potential of research conducted during TAs and VAs Outline the VITALISE approach for assessing innovation potential. The bootcamp will be implemented after the First VITALISE Summer School which will be held in Greece (Marathon) in July 2022, and in parallel with the Open Living Lab Days 2022 taking place from 21 to 23 September 2022 in Turin, Italy. It will also be repeated in 2023 in parallel with the second Summer School (the exact date to be decided within the consortium). The complete framework for evaluating the innovation and commercialisation potential is presented in Task 13.3 (more details are provided in §1.3). D4.8 includes only the background research on relevant evaluation frameworks and some preliminary proposals for adapting existing frameworks.