A key issue in SEE area is that it is lagging behind in terms of Innovation even though it includes many active research units, producing results that cannot find their way to the market. INTERVALUE (Contract number: SEE/A/426/1.1/X) is rooted to the Digital Research Centre of Central Macedonia aiming to contribute in exploitation of academic research through development of a web pool of R&D results. It is realized that a missing element was the definition of those R&D results elements that block valorisation potential, through the involvement of experts. INTERVALUE aims to bride the gap between R&D creators, producers, financiers and marketers by creating a trans-national mechanism that facilitates the valorization of research results. Trans-nationality is emphasized since the various elements of R&D valorization (researchers, financiers, producers and marketers) could come from the same country and there will be interaction between researchers and transfer of experience between stakeholders in different countries.
The overall objective is to set up a mechanism covering most of the SEE area, which allows sharing and dissemination of key technologies and help to establish supply chains between the R&D institutions and the business sector. The project follows an integrated approach for strengthening the linkages among university R&D, industries, and public or private funding schemes through involvement of experts in evaluation and valorisation of R&D results.
(i) Enhancement of interregional cooperation by enlarging the capacity and marketability of R&D results through joint actions and by creating critical mass of R&D results in selected areas.
(ii) Dissemination and commercial exploitation of research outcomes delivered from the SEE research centers which will improve their capabilities to demonstrate their research outcomes and will facilitating SMEs to find solutions in specific technological problems.
(2) An average of 5 exploitation plans for new product ideas per participating country will be integrated ending up in valorisation agreements (39 in total).
(3) Participating institutions will integrate their capacity to support exploitation of R&D results.