BEAGLE Marketplace

Welcome to the BEAGLE marketplace, a dynamic space where industry and academia connect to drive innovation!

What is the mission of BEAGLE Marketplace?

We connect academia and industry to drive innovation. By applying Blue Ocean Strategy, BEAGLE creates unique opportunities for researchers and businesses to collaborate. Through co-creation, we turn groundbreaking research into real-world solutions

What is the Blue Ocean Strategy and why is its innovative approach key to unlocking new markets and business opportunities?

Blue Ocean Strategy pursues differentiation and low cost simultaneously to create new market space and unlock new demand. It centers on establishing uncontested market space – blue oceans – where competition becomes irrelevant, rather than battling rivals in existing markets.

Kim, W. C., & Mauborgne, R. (2005)

BEAGLE's 3-Phased Methodology and
Innovation funnel

Phase 1

Discover Opportunities: capturing industrial
innovation demands.

Phase 2

Co-Create Knowledge Valorisation: realizing alignment between
academic resources (innovation supply) and industrial demands.

Phase 3

Consolidate Knowledge Valorisation: consolidating knowledge valorisation
and formulating implementable A-I cooperation action plans.

This 3-Phased methodology operates through an Innovation Funnel approach that systematically channels participants from open call recruitment to implementation. The funnel progressively filters 120 industry demand, and 120 academic innovation supply offers into 60 Video-Factsheets on each side, then facilitates A-I matching to create 40 strategic connections, finally advancing to 20 action plans.

OPEN CALL
FOR ACADEMIA

OPEN CALL
FOR INDUSTRY

120

Offers on Innovation

Offer video-factsheets

Proposed connections

Action Plans Created

Demand video-factsheets

120

Demands on Innovation

Explore BEAGLE market niches!

Renewable Energy with AI

Solutions that optimize recycling of mixed plàstics into products. The demand includes developing and implementing industrial-engineering and mechanical automation systems to efficiently scale thermoforming processes for producing plastic boards from mixed plastic feedstock.

AI-enhanced Cybersecurity

Advanced AI solutions that enable organizations to adopt AI technologies safely and efficiently. The demand includes AI Readiness Navigator tools to assess risks, environmental and social impacts; automated cybersecurity agents designed for specific purposes to improve efficiency, adaptability, and cost-effectiveness; and solutions informed by psychology, human-computer interaction, and open-source intelligence.

Personalised Health

Personalized health technologies that improve prevention, monitoring, and treatment for individuals. Industry demands within this niche include AI assisted injury prevention and rehabilitation platforms for athletes, mental health and cognitive longevity tools for the elderly, patient-centered monitoring and alert systems, and AI-assisted medical screening software. Additionally, there is demand for personalized support during menopause, bioactive nutritional supplements, validated regenerative nutrition protocols, AI-driven employee wellness solutions, and integrated hospital quality management platforms to streamline care and compliance.

Drone Delivery Services

Technologies and infrastructure for urban drone delivery and passenger services. This includes AI decision support tools for cargo and passenger drone services, high-tech landing points with private, corporate, or public access, fully automated platforms for flight planning, routing, programming, and regulatory compliance, as well as automated drone delivery stations integrating AI algorithms, neural networks, and electrochemical sensors for applications in agriculture, IT, and logistics.

AI-powered Energy Consumption Analysis

Innovative AI applications in energy and building efficiency. Industry is looking for tools to estimate the lifespan and performance of second-life batteries, as well as intelligent, low-cost building management solutions that reduce energy consumption.

Sustainable Mobility Hubs

Development of platforms for shared mobility and urban micro-mobility optimization. The demand focuses on creating peer-to-peer vehicle sharing a platform connecting private car owners with individuals seeking short-term vehicle access, and predictive algorithm development, prototyping smart telematics sensors for real-time data, and research on social and environmental impacts.

Decentralised Renewable Energy

Advanced solutions for decentralized renewable energy and sustainable industrial processes. In particular, the market is looking for energy management automation for smarter manufacturing, energy-efficient production methods to reduce material use and carbon footprint, thermal and chemical storage systems for heat and hydrogen, photocatalytic technologies for environmental cleaning, and certification of bio-based materials to replace high-emission alternatives.

Conversion of Waste CO₂

Innovative technologies to capture and repurpose carbon dioxide, turning it into valuable materials, fuels, and chemicals. The industry is seeking, among others, open-source methods to reduce emissions in raw-materials production, technologies that convert CO₂ into low-carbon fuels, biological approaches that use CO₂ to generate fuels or chemicals, and transforming CO₂ into products like humic acid for carbon capture and storage.

AI & IoT for Smart Cities

Practical, technology-based solutions to improve urban living by making cities safer, more accessible, and more sustainable. Specifically, there is demand for autonomous mobility and logistics, such as optimization tools for vehicles, accessibility solutions, including AI tools to standardize accessibility data across cities, and increased safety, and operational efficiency, including analytics for better urban decision-making using AI.

Circular Agriculture and Packaging

Solutions that combine AI, sustainability, and resource efficiency. This includes data analytics using AI for prediction and decision-making, circular economy and waste management technologies such as recycling and composting, renewable energy and efficiency solutions for buildings and agriculture, and sustainable agricultural practices including advanced plant propagation, algae and spirulina cultivation, and eco-friendly fiber production.

Curious About the BEAGLE Workshops with Open Calls Participants?

Get insights from our workshops developed in collaboration with Open Call participants

BEAGLE conducted two workshops to connect industry innovation demands (OC#1) with academic research offerings (OC#2) across Europe.

The first workshop brought together industry innovators in breakout sessions using system innovation tools to map business innovation expectations and opportunities, resulting in 60 demand video-factsheets showcasing untapped market needs.

The second workshop engaged academic researchers to develop innovation proposals that address these demands, currently producing 60 offer video-factsheets presenting research capabilities and solutions.

These workshops serve as the discovery and co-creation phases of BEAGLE’s methodology, where Mixed Teams of university technology transfer advisors and cluster managers facilitate collaboration between geographically and sectorally distant partners.

The ultimate goal is to generate 40 academia-industry connections that will develop into 20 Action Plans for EU funding applications, creating new value chains in previously unexplored market niches.

Interested in checking out the BEAGLE Video Factsheets?

Register and gain access to over 60 industry demands and 60 academic innovations, offering valuable insights into new business opportunities and actionable plans.

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