Methodologies to bring innovative environmental technology R&D results into the market

It has been widely recognised that too few projects initiatedunder both national as well as EU funded research projects find their way to commercial exploitation. It has also become clear that there is a lack of communication/information channels between the R&D institutions and financialinstitutions as providers of financial support for the commercial exploitation of the R&D results, and industry.The author addresses the problems of: sub-optimal exploitationof EU public research results fragmentation of stakeholders & policy framework which result in an insufficient translation into market innovation of Europesscientific excellence in renewable energy.The main purpose of the new methodology is to apply an innovative & structured methodology for quicker & broaderexploitation of existing scientific RTD results licensing& spin-off creation based on scientific RTD results.The main steps of the methodology are to identify the most promising RTD results that are ready for innovationactivities agree on a common long term vision for each of them design for each of them a series of business model options that will be supported by private investors.The overall objective of the methodology is to address the technical barriers for transforming scientific researchresults into viable innovations, to unite all stakeholdersrelevant for technology transfer (research, industry,investors, technology transfer professionals), to promote the market uptake of renewable electricity and renewable heating and cooling technologies by Europeancompanies or start-ups, and to distil best practices & policy recommendations.