The working group focuses on barriers and leaky pipes in the transfer process of research results into practice.
Companies in the US and China are investing significantly more in research and innovation to drive digital and ecological change. As a result, Europe is lagging behind the US and China in certain key technologies, as recent reports by Draghi, Letta and Heitor show. In addition to industrial policy measures, the increasing rivalry between the US and China is leading to intensified competition, which poses a challenge for the EU as it does not have anywhere near comparable resources.
However, India has also invested heavily in the growth of the IT sector over the last 10 years, becoming a serious and increasingly ambitious competitor in the fields of technology services and digital innovation.
Robust competitiveness – and thus long-term growth for a business location – depends not only on innovative capacity, but above all on the ability to exploit innovations in a value-adding way. In this context, Austria’s performance (according to the OECD, EIS, etc.) shows an input-output divergence, i.e. resource utilisation is not achieving the expected success. Competitiveness in RTI is not primarily about exploiting old products and services, but about generating new (knowledge) products. The central challenge lies in scaling, which requires a combination of technological know-how, efficient production management and economic strategy.
FORWIT is addressing this complex interplay through, among other things, the exploratory study ‘Science2Business’, which takes a closer look at the leaky pipes in the innovation cycle (i.e. the transfer process from research to application in the market and its impact).
Status
completed
Duration
01. January 2025 until 31. March 2026
Georg Kopetz
Chair
Sonja Sheikh
Member
Sylvia Schwaag Serger
Member
Philipp von Lattorff
Member
Alexandra Mazak-Huemer
Coordinator
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Three shortcomings are holding back Austria’s innovation transfer
The FORWIT analysis “From Science to Business” identifies systemic weaknesses in the transfer from research to successful products and highlights what is needed to make the industrial strategy a success.