{"id":18951,"date":"2017-11-01T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technopolis-group.com\/strategic-advice-to-establish-new-research-organisations\/"},"modified":"2020-04-08T14:40:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:40:42","slug":"strategic-advice-to-establish-new-research-organisations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technopolis-group.com\/sv\/strategic-advice-to-establish-new-research-organisations\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic advice to establish new research organisations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A considerable share of the research organisations that we have evaluated (e.g. Dutch Top Technology Institutes, VIB, the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology, the Irish Centres for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET)) concerned virtual institutes: institutes with participation of various university groups and therefore distributed research locations. The evaluation of over 70 research centres and groups across Europe provides the backbone for strategic advice with in-depth insights on (virtual) research institutes and their operations. This has proven very beneficial to support stakeholders in the establishment of new (virtual) research centres. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When SIRRIS,\nthe collective centre for and by the technological industry in Belgium, took\nthe initiative to set up a virtual research centre for materials research in Flanders\nabout 10 years ago, it approached Technopolis Group as partner for a\nfeasibility study for this Strategic Initiative Materials (SIM). Together with\n10 major industrial companies and a number of Flemish universities, a strategy\nand an organisational structure were developed for the institute. Technopolis\nGroup was responsible for developing the organisational model, including the\nmodel for financial contributions from industry and the model for distributing\ngovernment funding across the various research partners, with guidance from the\nindustrial stakeholders. Furthermore, Technopolis Group facilitated the discussions\nbetween industry and the universities on the intellectual property rights (IPR)\nmodel to be used. Now, 10 years later, SIM is flourishing; it has increased\ncritical mass for materials research in universities and become a flagship\ncluster in the regional policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technopolis\nGroup was also hired by the regional government of the Province of\nNoord-Brabant in the Netherlands to coordinate efforts in the province to set\nup an international leading research and technology centre in the field of solar\ncells. The national energy research centre, ECN, had indicated that they were\nwilling to relocate part of their activities to the province, on the condition\nthat they would receive an investment subsidy of \u20ac30 million. Working with a\ngroup of leading regional stakeholders and ECN, the idea of a local ECN\nsubsidiary was transformed into a joint research centre of four research\ninstitutes that recognised the scientific and commercial potential of joining forces\nwith each other, in cooperation with many local companies from the (broader)\nregional ecosystem. The subsidy was awarded, distributed among all four\nresearch partners, leading to Solliance being set up. A new research centre in\na new, joint location. Although the economic crisis slowed down the initial\ngrowth of Solliance, it is now flourishing. At present eight research groups\n(from three countries) have developed solar cells with world-record breaking\nperformance. The centre is now working with regional industry to demonstrate\ntheir technologies and bring them to the market successfully. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These and\nother examples of supporting the establishment of new research centres\nillustrate the following: <\/p>\n\n\n\n