The European Patent Office’s Observatory on patents and technology quantifies and explores trends and challenges throughout the innovation ecosystem and provides evidence for policy-making. It focuses on three streams: technology intelligence; legal and innovation policies; plus diversity and transformation.

Time to start submitting your proposals to apply for this 10,5 million € funding to implement pre-commercial procurements that get innovative civil security technology solutions developed, tested and deployed. The call for proposals closes on 20 November 2024.

Check out the new video of the 4 September hands-on QandA session and the video of the previous 28 May info session about the European call for pre-commercial procurements on greening healthcare. Get ready to submit your proposals to obtain 15 million € EU funding to get innovative solutions developed, tested and deployed for your procurement initiative to green the healthcare sector. The deadline for submitting proposals is 26 November 2024.

The P3DX programme financed by the Dutch ministry of welfare, health and sports invites potentially interested bidders to participate on 4 November 2024 in the open market consultation for their upcoming pre-commercial procurement. Aim is to improve the prepardness for future pandemics by getting innovative testmethods developed that improve the time, test quality, cost efficiency and widescale deployability for pathogen detection.

The Municipality of Amsterdam and Amsterdam University Medical Center, in cooperation with the Amsterdam Health Technology Institute (AHTI), will procure together several innovative digital services: (1) A platform as an online digital front door for routing citizens with health-related questions to the best wellbeing/healthcare professionals with the use of generative AI. (2) Personal dataspaces for collecting and sharing health and wellbeing data. (3) Story Builder (from data to visual information) for constructing a personalized story of a citizen’s health and wellbeing that can be shared with professionals. The upcoming open market consultation and further preparation of the procurement is supported by the European Assistance For Innovation Procurement.

In cooperation with the Greek Ministry of Climate Crises and Civil Protection and the Fire Brigade, the main central purchase body for digital solutions in Greece (INFOSOC) is preparing an innovation procurement to obtain better prediction models for natural disasters (fires and floods) based on real sensor and historical data. This is also the first innovation procurement implemented by a European Digital Innovation Hub. The upcoming open market consultation and further preparation of the procurement is supported by the European Assistance For Innovation Procurement.

The video and presentations of the 17 September 2024 online webinar on value engineering are available. Learn from US and EU speakers on how they use this proven technique to continuously keep increasing the quality and lowering the costs of delivered solutions during contract implementation. Calling on all public sector organisations: Do you also want to get better value for money out of your next procurement? Get free of charge assistance from our European Assistance For Innovation Procurement to incorporate value engineering into your tendering approach.

The session organised by the CIVITAS Initiative's New Mobility Services community at the Week of regions and cities was inspiring. Heartbreaking to hear all the barriers that deter startups and scaleups from bidding with innovative solutions for public procurements, but luckily they also had some ideas on how to get beyond doing just some piloting with public authorities and really scale up their business with actual sales contracts. Interestingly several of their requests coincide with recommendations from the Letta and Draghi reports, although there are also extra things on their wish-list.

PARC made significant progress in operationalising the SSbD framework in the form of developing a toolbox. Here is what happened in 2024.

Let’s start this conversation! Join the workshop on 14 November 2024 in Brussels and read about the perspectives from the Nordics and beyond.

A consultation on the future European strategy for AI in Science Strategy is open. Do you use AI for knowledge valorisation? It is also for you. Deadline 5 June 2025.

The Knowledge Valorisation Platform connects players in Europe to work together, keep up with latest developments and share experiences and best practices. Join the European exchange and submit your best practice.

The ‘Discover, Launch, Accelerate, Scale’ (DLAS) methodology and associated training programme help people to create impact at scale from SSH research ideas. The practice from the UK introduces novel communication strategies and concepts to generate early engagement from SSH researchers not used to thinking of valorisation, and it provides practical tools.

Ireland’s Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF) invests €500 million in the development of such technologies by supporting start-up activities and collaborations between the public and private sectors, large firms and SMEs. Its consortium agreement will contribute to a trusting environment necessary for such collaborations.

The mission of eDoer from Germany is to offer free, open, high-quality, versatile, easy-to-use educational services based on openly available learning content and cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) based technology. The target audience of eDoer is potentially everyone, who wants to learn something new or share knowledge and learning materials in a structured way.

How can Europe foster competitiveness and prosperity? What are the latest tools and models of knowledge valorisation to help us in this? Join in Brussels or online on 10 December to shape the future of EU knowledge valorisation with us.

Rewatch the last EU Knowledge Valorisation Talk on spin-offs and start-ups in the run up to the European strategy.

Join online the first day of the event where you will hear about citizen engagement and discover the finalists of the local hackathons across Europe who bring innovative solutions for the climate. It takes place on 10 October from 14:00 to 17:00.

Take a fascinating journey and discover how to enable new opportunities for value creation through the toolkit, policy briefs and other results of the ZOOOM Horizon Europe project.

Find out what this new agreement of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation with the European Patent Office will bring to the table.