Technology Transfer and Commercialisation for the European Green Deal

The rapid deployment of green technologies will be vital to put the EU on a path to meeting the European Green Deal objectives. Many green technologies with a great potential to contribute to the EU’s green transition are currently being developed in research laboratories across the EU. How can we ensure that these novel technologies find the right conditions to mature and become widespread in the EU? What are the main barriers in the transfer of green technologies from the research organisations to the market? And what could facilitate the rapid commercialisation of green technologies? This report on technology transfer and commercialisation for the European Green Deal sets out to answer these questions. A particular focus was placed on barriers and facilitators for green technologies in the areas of EU policy, intellectual property and financing. Four case studies were carried out in the fields of hydrogen, batteries, carbon capture and storage and artificial intelligence. The analysis resulted in policy recommendations on how to facilitate the technology transfer and commercialisation of green technologies. Giving green technologies the best chances to reach market maturity and have an impact in transforming our societies will take us a step closer towards achieving sustainability goals.JRC.I.4 - Intellectual Property and Technology Transfe

Multi-domain change impact analysis for agile cyber-physical production systems engineering

The manufacturing and production industry is on the verge of a transformation to intelligent networking of machines and processes with the help of information and communication technology, known as Industry 4.0. Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPSs) play a central role in this transformation as they offer flexibility and resilience. In CPPS engineering, teams from multiple domains work simultaneously and iteratively on a variety of assets to design and build CPPS, or parts of it. The focus of this thesis lies on multi-domain CPPS engineering, where experts from different domains work together. This thesis addresses the challenges of Multi-domain Change Impact Analysis (M-CIA) of technical changes throughout the CPPS lifecycle. The challenges of such change impact analysis include the exchange between stakeholders from different domains, the high complexity of integration, and implicit and scattered production knowledge. The thesis applies the design science methodology and builds on agile change management workflows and existing software engineering approaches. The thesis 1) presents the results of an expert survey, 2) identifies challenges of M-CIA in existing environments 3) designs and validates the M-CIA method and a supporting system design. The results are validated with a feasibility and a case study with the help of a system prototype. The evaluation results of the method and the system design show that the solution approach is feasible. An increase in efficiency and perceived improvement are determined through a case study with an industry partner. The proposed M-CIA method utilizes established Dev- and GitOps practices in software development to facilitate and automate multi-domain change impact analysis in CPPS. The M-CIA method and system design enable practitioners and researchers to improve the coordination of multi-domain change impact analysis in the CPPS environment. In doing so, it facilitates cross-domain stakeholder exchange, centralization of production knowledge, and integration of domain-specific perspectives on their production system, thus preventing costly and late adjustments

Shrouded in motion

Öl, Acryl, Textil, Gips auf Leinwandhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11806/next/IAGN_2024002

Range of horizontal transport and residence time of nitrate in a mature karst vadose zone

Nitrate concentrations in drips in Amaterska, Spolecnak, and Holstejnska caves situated below a 25 to 120 m thick vadose zone in the Moravian Karst, Central Europe were studied during several periods from 1992. Each cave runs below a land-use boundary between fertilized lands and forest, which enabled study of the range of horizontal components of nitrate transport in the vadose zone. Parts of the fertilized land were turned into grassland in 1998 and 2003, and the cave drips were sampled both prior and after the changes in land use. The mean residence time of nitrate is - 30 m thick vadose zone, but \u3e16 years in the 105 - 120 m thick vadose zone. The maximum range of horizontal nitrate transport (Hmax) is 18 m in the 105 - 120 m thick vadose zone. Hmax was normalized by the vadose zone\u27s thickness (T). In the Moravian Karst the Hmax/T ratio is max/T between 0.1 and 0.6 was observed in the Czech and Slovenian karst areas, unaffected by glaciations, and with an epikarst having evolved at least from the Pliocene. On the contrary, a high Hmax/T (1.6 - 24) was reported from those areas affected by glaciations or mining activities, where the epikarst zone might be partly removed or sealed, and where shallow soils do not store much water after heavy rains. More data on the horizontal transport of tracers within the vadose zone are needed in order to test the potential relationship between epikarst development and Hmax/T

Odmenovani v ceske ekonomice a jeho perspektivy

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Studium komplexnich sloucenin rhenia a holmia, vhodnych pro pripravu radioterapeutickych preparatu.

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