Training Platform
Knowledge Valorisation
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The Knowledge Valorization (KV) Training Modules aim to strengthen excellence in research and innovation through the consolidation of knowledge valorization capacities within higher education institutions and research organisations, with particular attention to institutions operating in Widening countries across Central and South-Eastern Europe. The programme supports research organisations in advancing from traditional knowledge-producing entities toward innovation-driven bioeconomy actors capable of translating scientific knowledge into societal, environmental, and economic impact.
Across Europe and globally, universities and research institutes operate within a bioeconomy transition that is reshaping expectations regarding the role of research organisations. Scientific excellence remains a fundamental pillar of academic activity. Nevertheless, excellence alone no longer guarantees institutional relevance, funding competitiveness, or societal influence. Within the Horizon Europe framework, impact has become an explicit evaluation criterion, requiring institutions to demonstrate structured knowledge valorization strategies, credible exploitation pathways, and measurable contributions to sustainability transitions.
In response to these evolving expectations, the KV Training Modules establish a systematic framework for strengthening institutional capacity to govern, transfer, position, and economically sustain innovation emerging from research environments. The programme addresses the needs of researchers, innovation professionals, institutional leaders, and technology transfer actors engaged in the development and deployment of bioeconomy innovations.
The programme is structured around four complementary modules that together constitute an integrated knowledge valorization capability framework:
The KV Training Modules adopt a bioeconomy ecosystem perspective, recognising that successful innovation emerges through interaction between research organisations, industry, policymakers, financial actors, and civil society. Strengthened institutional capacity across these interconnected dimensions enhances the ability of research organisations to position themselves as strategic actors within regional and European bioeconomy value chains.
This integrated approach equips participating institutions to translate research excellence into structured innovation pathways, accelerate the uptake of sustainable technologies, and contribute meaningfully to Europe’s transition toward a circular and climate-neutral bioeconomy.
In response to these evolving expectations, the KV Training Modules establish a systematic framework for strengthening institutional capacity to govern, transfer, position, and economically sustain innovation emerging from research environments. The programme addresses the needs of researchers, innovation professionals, institutional leaders, and technology transfer actors engaged in the development and deployment of bioeconomy innovations.
The programme is structured around four complementary modules that together constitute an integrated knowledge valorization capability framework:
- Management of Innovation – addressing institutional innovation governance, strategic direction, portfolio management, maturity tracking through TRL–IRL alignment, and the integration of responsible research and innovation practices that enable institutions to guide innovation progression from scientific discovery to systemic impact.
- Technology Brokering – focusing on the operational interface between research and external environments, including structured technology identification and screening, intellectual property strategy, transfer pathway selection, licensing models, partnership negotiation, and the development of long-term industrial collaboration frameworks.
- Research Marketing – strengthening the capacity of institutions to articulate the value of research outputs, develop credible value propositions, position innovations within evolving bioeconomy markets, and communicate strategic relevance to industrial actors, policy institutions, investors, and broader societal stakeholders.
- Business Plan Development – integrating economic modelling, revenue architecture, cost structure analysis, financial projections, scaling strategies, capital structuring, and risk-adjusted planning to ensure that bioeconomy innovations remain economically viable beyond project-based funding cycles.
The KV Training Modules adopt a bioeconomy ecosystem perspective, recognising that successful innovation emerges through interaction between research organisations, industry, policymakers, financial actors, and civil society. Strengthened institutional capacity across these interconnected dimensions enhances the ability of research organisations to position themselves as strategic actors within regional and European bioeconomy value chains.
This integrated approach equips participating institutions to translate research excellence into structured innovation pathways, accelerate the uptake of sustainable technologies, and contribute meaningfully to Europe’s transition toward a circular and climate-neutral bioeconomy.