WP 1: Research-based innovation roadmap
Research-based innovation roadmap
This package is dedicated to innovation management, exploitation, formulation; and maintenance of this roadmap.
The main challenge in developing an innovation eco-system, in connection with the SFI-program, is
bridging the “valley of death”. In terms of “Technology Readiness Level” (TRL), it is especially necessary
to develop a family of innovation projects on TRL 4-7.
In 2024 the main goal will be to continue building the foundation for an innovation eco-system among
the partners in the SFI and apply to RCN for the first new projects on TRL 4-7.
We aim to:
- Ensure that research-based innovation is endowed in all the activities of the SFI center;
- Systematically identify all results with an exploitation potential, and define for each of them a clear exploitation strategy; and
- Promote the results to outside stakeholders to enhance their market uptake.
Within this work package:
- An effective Innovation Plan will be developed.
- Innovative technical evolution will be assessed.
- A deployment plan for potential applications will be developed.
- An initial analysis of possible business development will be performed.
- An innovation roadmap for NORCICS, containing an overview of research results with industrial potential, and roadmaps for pushing them forward towards applications will be maintained.
In the roadmap all potential and planned innovations will be tracked, and plans for pushing them forward will be made and executed. NORCICS adopts the Open Innovation Model, thus expecting its user partners to actively participate in shaping a research-based innovation roadmap.
Tasks within Work Package 1
There is a number of industry partners in NORCICS. Some are cooperating with academic partners while others have been less active. There is a potential for both more and closer cooperation as shown in the Cookbook-initiative by Torstein Gimnes. In this task the purpose is to monitor the ongoing collaboration between NORCICS-partners and to collect information about ideas and level of interest for future collaboration. Within Task 1.1 that started in 2024 a survey was developed in a workshop between the task members at NR and Torstein Gimnes at Hydro. The survey includes questions about the current work-packages and tasks, and a section about new suggestions and ideas.
Objectives:
- To initiate, enhance, and monitor collaboration between the industry partners and the academic partners.
- To contribute to the content of “the Cookbook” edited by Torstein Gimnes Are.
Contact:
Task Leader T1.2, Svetlana Boudko/ (svetlana@nr.no)
Ingvar Tjøstheim (ingvar@nr.no)
Torstein Gimnes Arne (Hydro)
Partners involved:
- Hydro
- NR
In response to growing concerns regarding cybersecurity in critical sectors, the European Union has
introduced new legislation, collectively known as the Cybersecurity Package. This derives from the
EU digital strategy and includes, among others, the Network and Information Systems Directive
(NIS2), the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), the Critical Entities Resilience (CER) Directive, and the EU
Network Code on Cybersecurity for the Electricity Sector (NCCES). These have not yet been
transposed into the national Norwegian legislation, but several indications exist that this will
happen sooner rather than later. In any case, Norwegian operators of essential services will need
to comply with the requirements stemming from these, in order to maintain their competitiveness
in the European market.
These pieces of legislation/regulation directly impose or indirectly imply a large number of
requirements on the organizations within their scope. As with any legislation, particularly such
broad-encompassing and large-impact one, organizations strive to understand what is expected of
them and, more importantly, how these expectations can be met. Due to the very nature of the
requirements stemming from these pieces of legislation/regulation, questions necessitating some
research before they can be answered arise.
Objectives:
- To analyze these legislative initiatives to improve the understanding of the dynamics of the
regulation and its consequences for companies and the workforce in critical sectors, with a
focus on the sectors represented by user partners within NORCICS. - To examine what obligations does the new EU cybersecurity legislation impose on essential
services operators and how can these operators fulfill these obligations,
Contact:
Task Leader T1.3, Sokratis Katsikas NTNU
Partners involved:
- NTNU
- Hydro
- Yara
- Equinor
- Kongsberg
- Elvia
- Aiba
- Diri
- Mnemonic
- NC-Spectrum
- Sykehuset Innlandet