Bridging the gap between technology readiness and secure global collaboration
Europe’s push toward a 3% R&D intensity target, and the wider ambition behind Horizon Europe, puts Research and Technology Organisations in a difficult position. They’re expected not just to produce research, but to prove technology readiness, de-risk innovation for industry partners, and move discoveries toward market impact faster than before. The challenge isn’t a lack of research output. It’s connecting the dots between what’s being published, what’s being patented, what’s being funded, and what the market is already signalling it wants.
Join Collete Berbesque, Solutions Architect at Digital Science, for a look at how to build an evidence-led view of a technology’s maturity and commercial trajectory; triangulating publication trends, patent filings, and investment activity alongside forward-looking research signals to pinpoint where a technology sits on the TRL scale, and where it’s heading next.
As RTOs pursue the open, cross-border partnerships these signals help surface, they also need a way to protect what’s strategically sensitive before a new collaboration becomes a liability. The session also looks at how RTOs can screen potential partners and projects for research security risk, flagging undisclosed affiliations, dual-use concerns, and connections to restricted entities early enough to act on them, and build a defensible, audit-ready record of due diligence for funders, boards and regulators.
What you’ll learn
- How to track a technology’s progress along the TRL scale using evidence rather than assumption
- Where to prioritise effort based on where publication, patent and investment signals converge
- How to spot emerging competitors or potential collaboration partners earlier than traditional monitoring allows
- How to build a stronger, evidence-backed case for funding and industry collaboration
- What it takes to screen a partner or project for research security risk, and keep a defensible record of that due diligence
Who should attend
This webinar is relevant to anyone working in or around research security, research integrity, governance, compliance, international collaboration, or research management — including research security officers, compliance leaders, research office teams, international partnerships teams, funders, and government stakeholders.
Speakers
Colette Berbesque
Solutions Architect | Digital Science
