Standardisation, Innovation, Exploitation and Technology Transfer plan
Creators: name: F. Setaki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: NetApp, Standarisation, SDO, 3GPP, SA6, ETSI, IEEE, AIOTI, IPRs

description: EVOLVED-5G focuses on maximising the technological fingerprint and the business potential stemming from the integration of 5G in manufacturing by exploring novel technical capabilities that can lead to new business chains. The purpose of this document, Deliverable D7.2 “Standardisation, Innovation, Exploitation and Technology Transfer plan” is to explore the project activities and respective plans and the work carried out in Task 7.3 “Innovation Shaping and Standardization Alignment” and Task 7.4 “Exploitation Activities, Technology Transfer and IPR Management” for the first ten months of the project’s course.<br> The document provides a helicopter view of the project’s achievements in four thematic areas: The standardisation and innovation plan, that clarifies the principal technological innovations the project sets out to pursuit, and through a well-established approach, presents the plan to liaise with the relevant standardisation groups, with the target of active collaboration. The exploitation plan, that starts by describing the exploitation methodology to be applied, and subsequently presents the initial results focusing on project-wide, as well as, partners’ specific individual plans. The Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) management plan, considering agreements set prior to the project’s start, as well as, necessary auditing in the project’s course. The technology transfer plan that explains the process of launching an idea to the market, presenting a specific methodology devised as part of the project and proposing the respective tools, such as the guide for IPR commercialisation and the commercialisation blueprint. In respect to the results reported in this work, for the standardisation activities the primary focus is on 3GPP, and specifically SA2 and SA6 groups, ETSI OSM and MEC, IEEE TSN, 5GPP pre-standardisation WG and 5G-ACIA. To this direction, EVOLVED-5G is already bringing contributions to 3GPP SA6 to standardize new enablers for verticals, such as enablers for “App-Layer Analytics” and for “Network Slice Capability Exposure”. <br> In respect to the commercialisation of EVOLVED-5G results, it is noteworthy that the project has devised a holistic methodology to bind exploitation, intellectual property and technology transfer actions that need to take place during the project. The plan considers a three-phased approach, and the delivery of this document marks the completion of the first phase, involving the establishment of the relevant methodologies, and the identification of the initial results for further analysis. During the second phase, the focus shall be put in the finalisation of the technology transfer tools (the guide and the blueprint) while in parallel the IPR status per project’s outcome and involved partners will be clarified. At the last phase, to be completed by the end of the project, business case development methods, such as the Value Proposition and Lean Canvas tools, will be applied on selective exploitable outcomes as resulting from the previous analysis. <br> As the project results mature, potential amendments in the methodology and provided plans will be reported in the next deliverable D7.4 “Standardisation, Innovation, Exploitation and Technology Transfer Activities (Intermediate)” due M24 of the project.