ISSP UL Director Mārtiņš Rutkis and ISSP UL Deputy Director for innovation Andris Anspoks participated in the Workshop “Good practices on increased accessibility of research/innovation infrastructure to industry for testing, demonstration and co-creation” in Gothenburg, Sweden from November 29 to December 1.
The workshop included participants from the TTO CIRCLE network of the technology-transfer offices of large research organisations, industry, research and technology organisations (RTO), public authorities and academic representatives from across Europe. Mārtiņš Rutkis presented report “ISSP UL, Latvia Importance of R&I infrastructures to build innovation systems”.
Among other things, the workshop looked at how to develop an EU strategy for test and demonstration infrastructures to attract investment in R&D and innovation to the Member States and discussed practical challenges and opportunities for a possible upscale of Testbed Sweden to the EU level.