Bridging the valley of death: a success story on Danish funding schemes paving a path from technology readiness Level 1 to 9

Søren Debois; Thomas Hildebrandt; Tijs Slaats; Morten Marquard

doi:10.1109/SERIP.2015.18

Bridging the valley of death: a success story on Danish funding schemes paving a path from technology readiness Level 1 to 9

Søren Debois, Thomas Hildebrandt, Tijs Slaats, Morten Marquard

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Abstract

We report on a success-story in academic-industrial collaboration: The development of a new process technology, all the way from its conception as a potentially interesting idea at the IT University of Copenhagen, to its eventual implementation in a commercial product available from Exformatics A/S proven in operational environment. The process began with academic ideas about formal process models for design and execution of trustworthy, adaptive processes and workflows. Thanks to a strategic research project, the ideas were realised into theoretical foundations and a proof-of-concept prototype implementation validated in the lab. However, we then faced the well-known challenge of moving from the lab to the real world, i.e., Moving from TRL 5 to 7 in H2020 parlance, also known as bridging the "Valley of Death". We identify the key circumstances that made it possible to overcome the challenge: The deployment of academic/industrial knowledge-networks, specific types of smaller funding implements and the "industrial PhD" model.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Industrial Practice
Number of pages	4
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	19 Aug 2015
Pages	54-57
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4673-7085-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SERIP.2015.18
Publication status	Published - 19 Aug 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Industrial Practice - Firenze, Italy Duration: 17 May 2015 → … Conference number: 2

Conference

Conference	2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Industrial Practice
Number	2
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Firenze
Period	17/05/2015 → …

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Bridging the valley of death: a success story on Danish funding schemes paving a path from technology readiness Level 1 to 9. / Debois, Søren; Hildebrandt, Thomas ; Slaats, Tijs et al.
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Industrial Practice. IEEE, 2015. p. 54-57.

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Debois, S, Hildebrandt, T , Slaats, T & Marquard, M 2015, Bridging the valley of death: a success story on Danish funding schemes paving a path from technology readiness Level 1 to 9. in Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Industrial Practice. IEEE, pp. 54-57, 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Industrial Practice, Firenze, Italy, 17/05/2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/SERIP.2015.18

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