ASAP EU session: Koen Bertels, Delft University of Technology

A special session on European research projects that address topics that are relevant for the ASAP conference is organized. The goal of this session is besides the dissemination of results also an occasion to look beyond the borders of individual projects and to investigate to what extent obtained results can be useful for partner projects. The session explicitly addressed two issues: (i) how can technical results of the projects, in as far as no IPR issues arise, be more readily for other projects and (ii) how can the transfer to industry be improved? To this purpose, the session took the form of a brainstorming session in which a series of questions needed to be answered. Those questions were: 1. How can my project benefit from the results of other projects through e.g. re-use? How can other projects use part of the result of my projects? 2. How can we bring the results of our projects closer to an industry grade solution which may be sold/bought by industry? What instruments would we find useful to this purpose? What barriers block us ?