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Business Development Agency), Innobasque (Basque Agency for Innovation), on
a national level (CDTI (Industrial Technological Development Agency), Ministry of
Economy and Competitiveness) and on a European level (DGs of the European
Commission and EIT-European Institute of Innovation & Technology).
We have also collaborated with Innobasque in teaching the course international
R&D projects, in raising awareness and preparation of industrial representatives
to partake in European research.
On a more operational level, in 2014, IK4-IDEKO participated in 9 European
projects (being project manager of one of them) and achieved the approval of
another 3 new projects which will start at some time in 2015.
In our proposals, more importance is given than ever to factors such as industrial
impact, technology transfer and future exploitability of research results, something
which is considered critical by the European Commission in the H2020 program.
In this sense it is worth mentioning that IK4-IDEKO proactively participated at
forums organised by the EFFRA association aimed at increasing the exploitability,
technology transfer and impact of the projects as well as implementation and
promotion of project clusters with the same subject matter, such as zero-defect
manufacturing. IDEKO-IK4’s own registered methodology for exploiting results is
becoming increasingly more prominent in accepted projects as well as in new
proposals being prepared.
From now on, opportunities for advanced manufacturing in H2020 will not only be
found in the usual NMP-ICT-FoF programs, but also in programs related to social
challenges (Transport, Energy and Health). Specifically, smart manufacturing (or
the concept Industry 4.0) is making its appearance simultaneously in several
scenarios, which opens new opportunities for IK4-IDEKO’s know-how in this field.
At the same time, the creation of public-private contractual partnerships (Spire,
Robotics, Photonics, BigData) as well as institutional partnerships (JTIs ECSEL,
CleanSky, Shift2Rail) accelerated the definition and implementation of a strategy
of diversification for international trading of IK4-IDEKO.
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