In the long-term perspective, the Center will implement within its own structure and then promote to the entire region of Mazovia the best practices in research, innovation and management resulting in significant improvement of this Region’s research and innovation culture. Special attention will be paid to technology transfer and research commercialization, which have been identified as weak points of low performing countries, and particularly of Poland.
The Environmental Internet we propose to develop will entail large-scale team effort – in other words, the challenge cannot be tackled by any individual research group or even by several groups but working independently. The achieve the Center’s objectives a critical mass of scientists and engineers must be unified around one common goal – this is precisely how we envision the Center to operate, under one roof, in a highly collaborative fashion, and with cross-fertilization between multiple disciplines.
The project results will engage Mazovia and Poland on a unique path of innovative growth. As well as technical innovations will give rise to a family of hi-tech products that are unique, we assume to impose scientific-business relations allowing to establish first in Poland unit for excellence that will cooperate and support industry in wide scale. With every technology that is both innovative and unique, there is a strong possibility for commercialization, for creating a cluster of spin-offs, and for expending the original know-how into a technology in which a given country/region specializes. Through our research, we aim to position Mazovia and Poland on a global map as a leader of environmental monitoring for the 21st century. Our technologies will provide the first example of a technology that originated from Poland to gain world pre-eminence.
To achieve these ambitious goals and to foster Mazovia’s economic growth, CEZAMAT-Environment will from its inception
(i) protect the intellectual property it generates;
(ii) popularize its inventions through both professional and popular press/media;
(iii) seek institutional and private/VC investors for establishing spin-off companies and
(iv) sign licensing agreements with external organizations.
It is through these spin-offs originating from our Center and licensing agreements that various modalities of the Environmental Internet will ultimately be commercialized establishing a significant number of high-tech jobs located in Mazovia and, ultimately, also sustaining the Center financially beyond the five-year period of EU funding (details of the commercialization strategy are described in the Business Plan part of the Proposal).
The vision and the mission of our Center are well aligned with the EU-promulgated Smart Specialization Strategy of the Mazovian region (
http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu(opens in new window)). The Strategy selects five industrial sectors (chemistry, medicine, agriculture, energy, IT) and five leading technologies (biotechnology, nanotechnology, IT, photonics, electronics) as the focal points of Mazovia’s innovation-based economy of the future. Our proposal responds to four of these technologies (chemistry, agriculture, IT, photonics) and all lead-technologies. Furthermore, the Strategy delineates four Specialization Areas of which three are directly related to CEZAMAT-Environment activities: “Safe Foods,” “Intelligent Management Systems” (including “smart networks” and “resource-efficient systems”) and “Quality of Life” (including “Human Health”). Indeed, the Environmental Internet we propose to develop will be a smart network continuously monitoring Mazovia’s soil, forests, and orchards to detect and counter any threats that could adversely impact quality of food and/or human health.
Additionaly realisation of the project bring additional value if it comes to increase level of cooperation beatween Polish scientific institution and institutions from more advance in terms of innovativens countries. Exchange of best practices beatween partners of excellence will surely increase standards of conducting research in Poland.
