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Bridging the Gap between Research & Standardization

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

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

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Twofold Role of Standardization DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.

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

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

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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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Standards in the Research and Innovation Process (Integrated Approach) DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.

Pure basic research

Terminology

Applied research Interfaces Experimental development Compatibility; health, safety, environment

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Innovation

Measurement and testing

Standardization

Oriented basic research

Diffusion Source: Blind and Gauch 2009

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Research & Innovation and Standardization DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.

• 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!

► Development of new tools and methodologies to support the Horizon 2020 community in standardization 1Europe

2020 Flagship Initiative Innovation Union - COM(2010)546

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► Research and standardization should go hand in hand (Integrated Approach)

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BRIDGIT - Bridging the Gap between Research and Standardization DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.

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

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• 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 DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.

• 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

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• 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 DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.

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.

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• Partners:

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The DIN Approach to Integrating Standardization and Research DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.

Standard

Transfer BMWi Project

BMWi Project

"Innovation with Norms and Standards (INS)"

R&D Phase Standardization (EBN) projects

Research initiative

Market maturity

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"Transfer of R&D Results Through Standardization (TNS)“

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R&D Phase Standardization (EBN) DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.

• Integrates standardization in R&D projects early • Identifies the standardization potential of current innovation projects • Integrates practitioners and experts from research & development in standardization

► Standards as instruments of exploiting research results o Transfer, networking, dissemination o Standards are recognized results of R&D projects

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• Transfers content relevant to standardization into publicly available specifications (PAS) and CEN workshop agreements (CWA)

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R&D Phase Standardization (EBN) - Projects DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.

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)

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Sustainability • Sustainable value creation in manufacturing networks

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Linking Standardization and R&D&I DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.

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

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INS - Innovation with Norms and Standards • Supports standard committees in identifying and starting innovative projects

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DIN Award "Innovation" DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.

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

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• Specification projects that promote further (international) standardization activities

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Conclusions DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.

• 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

Take part!

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► Fosters collaboration between research communities and Standardization Organizations

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Contact and further information DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.

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

DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V. Am DIN-Platz Burggrafenstr. 6 10787 Berlin

[email protected]

Telefon: +49 (30) 2601-2323 Telefax: +49 (30) 2601-42323

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