TIPS project, a FP7 support action, will assist research projects in the field of transport in getting better access to the market.

The TIPS project, coordinated by Steinbeis Innovation gGmbH in Germany, started on 1st October 2012 and will run for 2 years. It aims to develop good practices and services to help ongoing research projects fully exploit their results by turning them into innovative products and services.

The first phase of the project is underway: identifying good practices. A field study has been initiated aimed at coordinators of completed European or national research projects in order to analyse innovation and exploitation processes and identify best practices. The study is managed by ICCR Foundation in Austria. As the first step, 516 EU projects have been contacted and invited to answer a questionnaire by the end of April 2013. National projects will be contacted in the second step. Based on analysis of the answers, the project will develop specific tools to support result exploitation plans either through individual support, workshops or training sessions. The project aims to support up to 100 on-going projects free of charge. A first international workshop is expected in November 2013, but individual support can start earlier.

Participants of on-going projects wishing to receive assistance in their results exploitation are invited to contact the coordinator SEZ by June 2013.

TIPS consortium is composed of 9 partners from around Europe, including experts in the transport sector, collaborative research projects, technology transfer and the dissemination of research results.

For more information about the project see the web site: www.transport-tips.eu or Facebook TIPS: transport R&D for Innovation
Contact: Steinbeis Innovation gGmbH:
Heike Fischer: [e-mail]
Jessica Ebner: [e-mail]
Kerstin Seidel: [e-mail]