From Open Science to Open Innovation: The ATTRACT Project
The Open Access Government website noted that a few years ago a consortium composed of major European research institutions (CERN, EMBL, ESO, ESRF, E-XFEL, ILL, EIRMA (the European Industrial Research Management Association) and two Universities particularly engaged in innovation (ESADE and AALTO) was formed to propose a phased program of adequate scale to quantitatively assess the connection of Open Science to Open Innovation. The consortium then engaged in a fruitful discourse with the European Commission, which eventually funded the two-phase project of co-innovation ATTRACT in the framework of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. The program’s co-innovation approach seeks to act as a facilitator between two communities – research and industry – bridging their apparently different motivations and goals for undertaking research and development and innovation.
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