EU support service for development of its4land business case

What: Common Exploitation Booster meeting

Where: University of Twente/ITC, Enschede, Netherlands and via Skype

When: 7 March, 2018

Who: the its4land team and Tunde Kallai, Senior EU expert Common Exploitation Booster

Why: The European Commission offers support services for ongoing R&I projects across the FP7 and H2020, one of them being the so called ‘Common Exploitation Booster service’ (CEB). The CEB services aim to bridge the gap between research results and exploitation by helping the project consortium in:

raising awareness on exploitation possibilities and exploitation planning;
clarifying issues, exploring solutions and actions, anticipating possible conflicts for successful exploitation;
setting up roadmaps for the long-term sustainability of the project results;
creating value out of novel knowledge (recognising exploitable results, creating revenues, improving skills, standardization or patenting, finding pathways for future work).

The its4land project partners made use of the CEB support services, which are offered by the European Commission, in order to develop the business plan. The CEB services aim to bridge the gap between research results and exploitation by helping the project consortia in raising awareness on exploitation possibilities and exploitation planning; clarifying issues, exploring solutions and actions, anticipating possible conflicts for successful exploitation; setting up roadmaps for the long-term sustainability of the project results; and creating value out of novel. Hence, within the context of the CEB services a seminar was held on 07 March at the University of Twente ITC centre in Enschede. The seminar was given by an external consultant who discussed with the project partners the key exploitation results (KER) which were identified by each work package leader.
The main outcome of this seminar was the decision to integrate the 6 identified KERs into one consolidated KER, the its4land land administration toolbox, which could offer the services and software packages to the future target users. The LEAN Business Model Canvas and the Platform Business Model Canvas were discussed during the seminar, which will form the basis in the exploitation and business modelling process.