The PoliUniBus project builds upon the the expertise already established in UniBUS project, PoliUniBus proposes the conception of a collaborative cloud based platform that implements a new challenge-led methodology to support higher education institutions to link with businesses across the Europe. The PoliUniBUS platform will support use 'challenges' led by policy makers to set conditions for AGILE innovation. Engagement across Universities and Industry will allow companies to manage and implement the complex innovation processes by taking advantage of universities' research and technological knowledge and expertise in a systematic way, by enabling an open multi-agent focused innovation (i.e. university/business focused innovation). Where PoliUniBus seeks to develop additional value is to engage Universities & Businesses with emergent and active agendas in policy, for example Grand Challenges/Catapults. The current (fragmented scenario), means that a Turkish technology developer cannot easily identify and access Finnish Research Expertise to address a UK societal need. This can be segmented into four key areas: • Accelerate Markets • Stimulate Innovation • Increase Understanding • Improve accessibility There is an imperative to identify knowledge, skills, research& development gaps in support of current and emerging agendas across the EU. This is a programme to identify and to set the conditions under which identified agendas can be stimulated across key areas of activity. As university research spins out SMEs it remains difficult for those SMEs to develop and access research & develop collaborations at other institutions. Further distance remains between national challenges and SMEs. In this regard, PoliUniBus seeks to develop a cloud-based platform to enable SMEs to initiate wider research collaboration in support of challenge-led initiatives across Europe. Building on the capability of UniBUS to address the University-Business identified need, PoliUniBus seeks to develop a cloud-based platform to enable SMEs to initiate wider research collaboration in support of challenge-led initiatives across Europe. PoliUniBUS seeks to build a coherent platform with a mobile application that is accessible to Europe-wide Universities, and Industry to align with challenges to support Europe-wide innovation.
The PoliUniBus project was built upon the expertise already established in UniBus project, PoliUniBus proposed the conception of a collaborative cloud-based platform that implements a new challenge-led methodology to support HEIs to link with businesses across the Europe. The PoliUniBus methodology & platform supported a use of 'challenges' led by policy-makers to set conditions for AGILE innovation. Engagement across Universities and Industry (see IO3 Model of Engagement) allowed companies to manage & implement the complex innovation processes by taking advantage of universities' research and technological knowledge and expertise in a systematic way, by enabling an open multi-agent focused innovation (i.e. university/business focused innovation). There was a significant opportunity to consider the ‘implications’ of bringing together universities with industry. The partners wanted to align activity through the development & application of challenge-led models of engagement with conditions under which this can add value to “Europe PLC”. In short, this project proposed to develop a cloud-based platform (IO5) to allow industry - university to initiate innovation in response to emerging social challenges, but also for challenges to set conditions for market development.
There is an imperative to identify knowledge, skills, research & development gaps in support of current and emerging agendas across the EU. As university research spins out SMEs, it remains difficult for those SMEs to develop and access research and develop collaborations at other institutions. Further distance remains between national challenges and SMEs. In this regard, PoliUniBus has developed a challenge-led methodology (IO2) powered with cloud-based platform (IO5) and mobile app (IO6); model of engagement (IO3) to enable SMEs to initiate wider research collaboration in support of challenge-led initiatives across Europe. It has brought together universities, their research capability and capacity, together with Industry development and their capacity to apply and exploit research knowledge. The project has addressed the capacities to innovate through the development of a challenge-led methodology. By bringing businesses and universities together, European companies has benefited by accessing cutting-edge research, high-tech infrastructure and highly skilled people, while universities have got an opportunity to develop their applied research and demonstrate the impact of their work.