Understanding the selection criteria

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Understanding the selection criteria
H. Rajbenbach
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ST Excellence

• Clearly defined and well focused objectives ?
• Progress beyond state-of-the-art ?

- No quantified specs for the proposed
device/component ! - No intermediate targets at
mid-term ! - Hey, too easy, some key parameters
are missing !
- Cant assess no commitment for some key
parameters ! - State-of the art is not described,
neither starting point !
H. Rajbenbach
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ST Excellence (cont)

• ST approach to achieve the objectives ?

- Nice, but is the technology scalable ? -
Interesting, but not manufacturable in a
foreseeable future ! - No risk assessment and
back-up options !
H. Rajbenbach
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Potential Impact

• Exploitation and/or dissemination plans adequate
  ?
• Clear added value to carry out work at European
  level ?

- Too vague - Starts too late - No dissemination
plan, besides they will publish ! - All
deliverables are confidential ! - Vague
industrial academic exploitation routes/plans!
- No demonstrated complementarity beyond one
country ! - Topic already supported in
Eureka/Medea one cannot distinguish the added
value here !
H. Rajbenbach
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Quality of the Consortium

• Collectively a consortium of high quality ?
• Participants well suited and committed to their
  tasks?

- Too dominated by one partner, and they can do
it alone ! - Individually very good, but WPx
reinvents the wheel ( done everyday at xx !)
- I do not understand what this partner is doing
! - This partner is just here to observe and
exploit the IP ! - This partner intends to
exploit, but no continuous role to
guide/specify !
H. Rajbenbach
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Quality of the Management

• Project management of high quality ?

- Management will have no authority to enforce
decisions ! Anyway, the decisions come too late
! - No procedure to resolve conflicts or make
choice !! (if no consensus, how will they
decide ?) - Too many non-converging parallel
activities ! - No Gantt chart - No links between
workpackages with decision points ! - No feedback
between WPs to improve device performance!
H. Rajbenbach