What is Innovation Exchange?

Objectives and main principles

The main objective of the project is to build organization and information infrastructure that allows effective management of projects subjected to technology transfer. That is to allow self-organization of a number of participants that are concerned about certain development/idea according to their interests and professional/technological/scientific field of activity. It’s almost impossible to achieve that main objective without building a proper information system which can grant:

• Support of wide register of innovation and technology sources (developers); 
• Support of register filled with innovation developments classified by its stage of advance and sphere of applicability (technology offers); 
• Support of register of mediators classified by their roles, interests and competence that are connected to the process of technological transfer (brokers);
• Giving the opportunity a virtual consortium of participants to be formed (self-organized) so they could manage the process effectively;
• Giving the opportunity discussion forums to be arranged so new ideas and proposals for collaboration can be given about certain development;
• Support of register of technological requests connected with specific industry problem or with a problem with other technological centers or networks (technology request);
• Internet access to the system which designation is to enlarge the base of all active participants in the technology transfer process – supply, demand, intermediation and financing, specific professional services related to the protection of intellectual property (IP), management, etc;
• Personalizing of the information and the services available for a certain user of the system according to his profile – role, belonging to the exchange, sphere of interests’ etc;
• Possibility for integration with other industry specialized exchanges.

Scope of the system

The system is actually an Internet based client-server application (accessible by Web-browser clients), assembled by two basic functional modules:

• Exchange of technology and innovations. Gathering of supply and demand made possible by pro-active mediators (brokers). All of the three main groups of users have particular tools/instruments to express their interest in a given idea/development/problem. The level of belonging to the exchange of a certain user determines the functions and the services that he/she may access;
• System for coordinating and managing technological transfer projects. This sub-system is closely integrated with the exchange services and gives the opportunity to a special category of users to define, coordinate and manage projects that have been initiated as a result of declaring participation/interest by a certain group of exchange members. The links with other specialized branch exchanges are fulfilled and coordinated from this level.