Join us for a CETPartnership Impact event on innovation to industrial deployment.
Europe has no shortage of promising research and innovation. The challenge is turning these results into first industrial deployments and investable businesses.
As European R&I projects increasingly aim for higher TRLs and First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) deployment, the transition from successful demonstration to commercial scale is becoming a critical step. At the same time, the upcoming European Competitiveness Fund signals stronger EU attention to supporting the pathway from research and innovation to scale-up and industrial deployment.
The CETPartnership FOAK Forum will bring together projects, industry, investors and experts to examine the challenges of this transition: What prevents promising technologies from reaching FOAK deployment? How can FOAK projects become investable? And what needs to happen already during an R&I project to prepare for successful commercial deployment?
The programme will include:
- Insights from Federico Spadaro, CLERENS / H2IF, on the barriers between R&I success and FOAK deployment;
- Aymeric Reymond, Airfix Carbon / CO2RR, on building a first commercial cross-border CO₂ value chain;
- Valentin Manea & Niels Knudsen, Implement Consulting Group, on business models that enable FOAK investments;
- and Kenneth Widell, Wärtsilä, bringing an industrial perspective on what it takes to move from pilot to commercial deployment and what needs to happen already during an R&I project to prepare for successful commercial deployment?
Further speakers and programme details will follow.
The event is open and particularly relevant for projects and organisations working towards FOAK deployment and commercial scale-up.