The first Industrial Advisory Board meeting
3 December 2013 - 4 December 2013
Austria
Innovation is becoming a key driver in European research which will impose a closer interaction between central facilities and industry in the future. Developed over decades with the academic community, neutron scattering and muon spectroscopy have become potentially key techniques in the innovation cycle. However, the evolution of the facilities to meet the needs of the academic community has resulted in an infrastructure that is not necessarily well-suited to innovation-driven research. For example, facilities select experiments based on scientific excellence whereas high-throughput screening of samples may be required by industry. Academic users require data that they will transform into results whereas industry requires scientific results and efficient characterisation of materials.
The EC-funded project NMI3 will therefore join forces with the synchrotron I3, CALIPSO , to create a combined Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) composed of 7 experts from each project. The IAB will help define future, optimal use of neutron, muon and X-ray facilities by industry considering issues like:
- opportunities for industry to engage in research at central European facilities;
- promoting new opportunities and provision of appropriate training;
- industry-specific issues related to proprietary and pre-competitive R&D;
- the operational strategy of the European facilities concerning, for example, suitable instrumentation, access methods and efficient production of results.
Two meetings of the IAB are planned in the duration of the two EC projects, which will also involve the industrial representatives from the Research Infrastructures. The first IAB meeting will be held in Frankfurt on December 3rd-4th 2013. This meeting will help to prepare an EU-wide industry-facility event in Autumn 2014.
The EC-funded project NMI3 will therefore join forces with the synchrotron I3, CALIPSO , to create a combined Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) composed of 7 experts from each project. The IAB will help define future, optimal use of neutron, muon and X-ray facilities by industry considering issues like:
- opportunities for industry to engage in research at central European facilities;
- promoting new opportunities and provision of appropriate training;
- industry-specific issues related to proprietary and pre-competitive R&D;
- the operational strategy of the European facilities concerning, for example, suitable instrumentation, access methods and efficient production of results.
Two meetings of the IAB are planned in the duration of the two EC projects, which will also involve the industrial representatives from the Research Infrastructures. The first IAB meeting will be held in Frankfurt on December 3rd-4th 2013. This meeting will help to prepare an EU-wide industry-facility event in Autumn 2014.