EFFECTIVE KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER ACTIVITIES: CLOSER LINKAGES SMEHEI AND FORESIGHT METHODS

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EFFECTIVE KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER ACTIVITIES
CLOSER LINKAGES SME/HEI AND FORESIGHT METHODS
The IRE Knowledge Transfer Working Group
23d May 2007, Ennis
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Session I Rogaland - case studies of projects
and initiatives

• BIP User Driven Research based Innovation
  Projects
• Objective To stimulate RD activity in business
  and industry, particularly activities that
  promote innovation and sustainable value
  creation.
• The program offers partial financing to major RD
  projects for the development of technology,
  services or processes that have the potential to
  enhance value creation.
• The scheme is open to all industries and fields,
  but only projects representing a significant
  collaborative effort will qualify for funding.
• Expenses that may be covered Relevant project
  expenses such as payroll expenses, purchase of
  external RD services and one or more
  grants/fellowships.

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BIP - background

• Applications must include a detailed project
  description, which will be evaluated by external
  referees. The funding process is
  highly-competitive.
• Applications will be accepted from Companies,
  group of companies or organisations that have
  been officially issued an enterprise number under
  the Register of Business Enterprises.
• Grants are awarded directly to the contract
  partner for an amount comprising 25 to 50 per
  cent of the project costs.  
• In short The BIPs are projects applied for by
  companies with partners (consortiums). They may
  receive up to 50 funding. In exceptional cases,
  financial support may be given to individual
  companies.

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BIP project templates

• PART 1 The research project
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• 1.      Objectives
• 2.      Frontiers of knowledge and technology
• 3.      RD challenges
• 4.      Research approach/methods
• 5.      International cooperation
• PART 2 Exploitation of result
• 6.  Underlying idea
• 7.  Innovation/degree of novelty
• 8.  Plan for exploitation of research results in
  the individual company a) Business conceptb)
  Innovation/degree of novelty c) Economic
  valued) Plan for realisatione) Risk factors
• 9. Environmental impact

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Case Badger Explorer (BIP)
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BIP evaluation report 2005

• Evaluated 1100 projects supported from 1995 to
  2005. Evaluation of long term effects of projects
  (up to 8 years)
• Findings
• A few projects have potential to generate private
  sector returns greater than the cost of all
  projects surveyed.
• In the long run, actual development of
  competence, new technologies and networking are
  often more important to the companies than
  economic returns.
• Projects contribute to creation of new knowledge,
  scientific publicatons, PhD.
• Net present value of projects approx 300 M .
  Private sector returns approx 1, 050 M ,
  including projects with low added value.

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BIP Economy

• BIP 2006
• Program 200 M Norway as a whole.
• Private co financing 127 M
• Research Council64,5 M
• Public and International 8,5 M
• BIP is an integrated instrument in several
  different research programs
• Biotechnology and biomedicine,
• Energy/petroleum,
• Marine and land- based food production,
• Maritime activitites,
• ICT,
• Materials and Nanotechnology,
• Forestry and nature based industry,
• Transport.

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VRI Value Creation and Regional Innovation

• VRI is the Research Councils main support
  mechanism for research and innovation in Norways
  regions. The primary goal for VRI is to encourage
  innovation, knowledge development, and added
  value through regional cooperation and a
  strengthened research and development effort
  within and for the regions. (Researchers in
  action)
• Rogaland focus on Energy, Maritime Industries
  and Food (Tourism and Creative Industries to
  come.)

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Case A VRI network