TIES 2
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | CHALMERS TEKNISKA HÖGSKOLA AKTIEBOLAG - D&IT |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 2 000 000 |
| Project duration | October 2014 - March 2016 |
| Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
TIES has developed and validated collaboration methods which enables participants in the the Swedish innovation climate to apply new research knowledge in industrial use in a faster and broader sense as compared to contemporary knowledge transfer. The project´s approach has been to add a business dimension between the parties (academia = > industry) which implies that corporations pay for implementation support according to their needs. Project results indicate that innovation can improve if academia and industry learns to collaborate upon a basis of a business dimension.
Results and expected effects
The project shows the methods for collaboration (in which researchers coach engineers) as efficient to implement new technology in industry. The improvement projects which has been delivered with corporations/technicians har succeeded in utilising new knowledge of significant value to the organisation´s specific innovation need. The project has also revealed the challenges in creating concrete business value with new research knowledge: it takes time to develop the relationships required, and requires a business dimension which enables for concrete deliverables.
Approach and implementation
The project was conducted with a separate business body (Explanea AB) which has served as the business entity, building relationships with about 100 organisations of great variety (large producing corp., smaller corp., tech. cons., governm. org. Highly differencing innovation needs). The relationships has served to develop and validate the SIP-methods in sharp business setting. The business dimension was crucial to ignite innovation collaborations with concrete targets of results and factual change at the corporations (customers´) end.