Pilot organisers pitch EU platform to connect companies with academic teams to solve discrete technological challenges
The Indusac consortium meeting in Barcelona in October 2023.
Collaborations between companies and universities are time-consuming and complicated to set up, and so tend to be reserved for major projects. But what about the little things? An EU-funded initiative has just finished testing a platform that brought together companies with discrete problems to solve and academic teams willing to co-create solutions in four to eight weeks.
While more than half of the challenges submitted were marketing-related, others posed technological questions or asked for help finding alternative applications for existing technologies.
For example, a bathroom equipment manufacturer asked for help finding a use for the aluminium oxide powder it produces as a byproduct, and was given options for developing value-added catalysts. A modestly sized metal processing company asked for help implementing AI systems, and was given suggestions that would improve productivity,…
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