Bridging the Valley of Death in Security Research
In view of overcoming the gap between the research and development of novel solutions and their market uptake, the EARTO WG the EARTO WG Security & Defence has formulated six recommendations on bridging the “valley of death” in Security Research:
- Actively promote involvement of all Security RD&I stakeholders in every step of the way (including during design phases);
- Stimulate further participation and involvement of practitioners in Security RD&I projects in taking up and implementing results after (a series of) RD&I projects;
- Implement a structured capability development approach at Member States level feeding into the research programming at EC level to address validated and broadly accepted practitioners’ needs;
- Allow for a sufficient duration of Security RD&I projects;
- Actively promote a dedicated area within the publicly available EU Research Results Platform, containing all public Security Research projects’ key exploitable results;
- Lift the coordination of useful project interactions to DGs level rather than keeping it as agency level to allow further policymaking to draw from the learnings in the Security RD&I projects performed.
Founded in 1999, EARTO promotes RTOs and represents their interest in Europe. EARTO network counts over 350 research and technology organisations (RTOs) in more than 20 countries. EARTO members represents 150.000 of highly-skilled researchers and engineers managing a wide range of innovation infrastructures.