How technology transfer activities can help EU industry and manufacturing SMEs to adopt advanced and clean manufacturing technologies was the main question of today's workshop, organised by the JRC in cooperation with the European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA).
Speakers in the opening session included Vladimir Šucha, Director-General of the JRC, Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director-General of Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SME's, Jan Eric Sundgren, Chairman of the Business Europe´s working group on research and technological innovation and Maurizio Gattiglio, Chairman of EFFRA.
The workshop brought together some 170 technology providers, industry executives, technology transfer officers and policy makers with the objective of reducing fragmentation of advanced manufacturing technologies policy making. Workshop participants analysed the role of technology transfer in commercialising innovative research ideas in the manufacturing sector. The second session was dedicated to examples of successful integration of advanced and clean manufacturing technologies in SMEs. The presenters underlined the need for operational and organisational changes, where human factors, skills and internal cultural change need to be taken into account. Finally, participants to the round table analysed the lessons extrapolated from success stories and explored the role that stakeholders could play in making the technology transfer mechanisms of new advanced and clean manufacturing technologies more efficient. Participants worked on a number of policy recommendations on how synergies among existing technology transfer mechanisms at EU, national and regional levels can be further exploited and supported in the future.
The JRC contributed to the debate with its expertise gained from managing the European Technology Transfer Office (TTO) Circle since 2011. The objective of the network is to bring together major European public research organisations in order to play a collective role in driving changes to the technology transfer landscape in Europe.
Other activities involve the creation in 2012 of a permanent European Forum for Science and Industry (EFSI) in cooperation with Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SME's to provide a reliable platform to exchange views on the needs of the industry concerning science and innovation and to strengthen the dialogue and cooperation between science and industry in key sectors for European competitiveness and economic growth.
Together with the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP), in 2013 the JRC has launched the "Science Parks Initiative", focusing on open innovation and smart specialisation. This activity is supported by the joint JRC and Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy platform for Smart Specialisation (S3P) which provides professional advice to EU countries and regions for the design of their research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation.
The JRC is working closely on this with other Commission services: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, which supports R&I actions on advanced manufacturing systems under Horizon 2020, and the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SME's, which leads the task force on advanced manufacturing for clean production.
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