The handover moment: Designing a framework that allows the aggregation of insights to allow a translation into an interaction that increases the likelihood of implementation

The Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) has been finding it increasingly difficult to carry out its task in recent years. Increasingly, they have been in the news negatively with reports such as poor conditions in Ter Apel, hopeless waiting times for applicants and having to pay penalty payments. Besides the media attention, it is...

Successful Scale-Up Support for Start-Ups in Industrial Biotechnology: A Multiple Case Study on Scale-Up Support Ecosystems

Industrial biotechnology is labelled by the European Commission as one of the six key enabling technologies to fight climate change. Industrial biotechnology is a sector where biocatalysts (cells or enzymes) are used to convert renewable feedstocks (e.g. sugars) or even waste into valuable compounds such as renewable chemicals or food ...

Crossing the valley of death: Entrepreneurial challenges in developing Airborne Wind Energy

In recent years, development of a concept from the mid- 1970's has led to the emergence of Airborne Wind Energy Systems (AWES). Currently the AWES sector encompasses dozens of companies that are developing a range of concepts of, more or less automated, flying wings attached to a tether which convert wind energy to electricity. At the time of...

Bridging the valley of death: An Approach to aligning Design Agencies and their Clients through Organisational Empathy

A knowledge gap exists between design agencies and their clients leading to what is known as the Valley of Death. This is the result of a resource and knowledge gap around a concept, leading to challenges in adoption into an organisation resulting projects losing momentum, and ultimately being abandoned. The aim of this project was to develop a...

Exploring the Valley of Death in Biopharma

The pharmaceutical sector is more and more going in the direction of using living systems to produce the drugs, also known as biopharmaceuticals. The innovative capacity for biopharma firm has proven to be high, making them interesting sources for new innovative drugs for the market. Bringing a new medical drug to the market is a long and...

Commercialization of project results in research public-private partnerships

This exploratory study aims at finding influences of characteristics on commercialization of results of research and innovation projects funded by the EU. This study will help overcomer the Valley of Death, which is the troublesome transition from research to the subsequent commercialization. This study aims at two themes within FP7-NMP which...