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Bridging the Gap between Research & Standardization

Standards as Driver for Innovation Brussels, 7th of March 2013

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Dr.-Ing. Karlhanns Gindele Director Innovation DIN German Institute for Standardization

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DIN is a registered non-profit association supported by the private sector. On the basis of a contractual agreement with the Federal Republic of Germany, DIN is the responsible German standards body in European and international standards work.

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Twofold Role of Standardization

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Traditional Role of Standards Source of technical know-how Trade facilitation and opening of markets Providing a scientific basis for legislation in the health, safety and environment sectors Valued-added role for research and innovation Standards as link between invention and innovation Speeding up innovation by providing the requisite knowledge base (technology transfer)

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New ideas, technologies and products need standardization to get into the marketplace and to be successful

Standards in the Research and Innovation Process (Integrated Approach)

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Pure basic research

Terminology
Oriented basic research

Standardization

Diffusion
Source: Blind and Gauch 2009

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Innovation

Measurement and testing Applied research Interfaces Experimental development Compatibility; health, safety, environment

Research & Innovation and Standardization

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EU and European Standards Organizations are strengthening the links between research/innovation and standardization o For example, the European Commission states in regard to the EU 2020 Strategy1 that Standards play an important role for innovation Standardization strategy should be defined already at the beginning of the research and innovation process o and not in the end! Research and standardization should go hand in hand (Integrated Approach)
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Development of new tools and methodologies to support the Horizon 2020 community in standardization
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2020 Flagship Initiative Innovation Union - COM(2010)546

BRIDGIT - Bridging the Gap between Research and Standardization

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Promotion of standardization to researchers

Collection of Best Practices from European National Standards Bodies (NSB), and including best strategies in a Toolkit, targeting NSBs and research communities Regional events to transfer knowledge and to support interaction with standardization Final European Conference to disseminate the project results Helping researchers to properly include standardization in research projects of Horizon 2020 and providing network possibilities between researchers and NSBs
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BRIDGIT - Bridging the Gap between Research and Standardization

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Project duration: Jan 2013 to Dec 2014 Coordinated by DIN and funded by the European Commission and EFTA Initiative to promote the Integrated Approach and provide tools and methodologies that can be used and implemented by all interested stakeholders
Overall goal: to maximize the economic and social benefit of new ideas and technologies To bring NSBs and the research & innovation community together, and to foster the collaboration between NSBs
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BRIDGIT - Bridging the Gap between Research and Standardization

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BRIDGIT aims at:

Disseminating the evidence of the correlation between standardization and innovation, Demonstrating the best practices in Europe, and
Transferring the idea of the Integrated Approach to the research actors in Europe as strategic approach for innovation.

Partners:

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The DIN Approach to Integrating Standardization and Research

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Standard

Transfer
BMWi Project "Innovation with Norms and Standards (INS)"

BMWi Project
"Transfer of R&D Results Through Standardization (TNS) R&D Phase Standardization (EBN) projects

Research initiative

Market maturity

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R&D Phase Standardization (EBN)

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Integrates standardization in R&D projects early Identifies the standardization potential of current innovation projects Integrates practitioners and experts from research & development in standardization Transfers content relevant to standardization into publicly available specifications (PAS) and CEN workshop agreements (CWA) Standards as instruments of exploiting research results o Transfer, networking, dissemination o Standards are recognized results of R&D projects

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R&D Phase Standardization (EBN) - Projects

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Security Standardization potential of security in transportation infrastructures

Logistics In-time delivery in non-hierarchical manufacturing networks in the machinery and equipment industry Data Management Coordination Platform for External Order Processing using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
Sustainability Sustainable value creation in manufacturing networks
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Linking Standardization and R&D&I

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TNS - Transfer of R&D Results through Standardization Supports research institutes in exploiting standardization as an instrument for transfer and dissemination Link between research and standardization INS - Innovation with Norms and Standards Supports standard committees in identifying and starting innovative projects

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DIN Award "Innovation"

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Purpose DIN established an award for promoting new standards and specification projects in innovative fields DIN awards Standard proposals that open up new fields for DIN or give new impulses to existing ones Standard projects that were initiated by R&D projects Specification projects that promote further (international) standardization activities
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Conclusions
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Standards play an important role for innovation

BRIDGIT
Raises awareness for standardization as supportive measure in the innovation process Supports Horizon 2020 actors in using standardization as a strategic instrument for technology transfer Provides best practices for the inclusion of standardization in research projects

Fosters collaboration between research communities and Standardization Organizations

Take part!

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Contact and further information

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Dipl.-Phys. Dr.-Ing. Karlhanns Gindele

Director Innovation DIN Deutsches Institut fr Normung e. V.
Am DIN-Platz Burggrafenstr. 6 10787 Berlin http://www.din.de
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karlhanns.gindele@din.de

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