D1.7 Innovation Strategy Report

Innovation management is a structured process which encopasses various phases:

•  Monitoring of the partners innovation activities
• Execution of market analyses to define the landscape of the activity areas covered by the project in order to identify business opportunities
• Development of business models to support exploitation strategies and plans
• Planning and execution of activities aimed at generating awareness on the innovative results to ease the market uptake.

This deliverable provides a full report of the innovation management activities undertaken within the UNICORE project, and specifically describes how the Consortium has covered the aforementioned phases.

Specific UNICORE Unique Value propositions and innovative results for joint exploitation are identified and presented, together with Business Model Canvas related to the UNICORE use cases.

The deliverable documents the innovation strategy adopted for the open source software produced in UNICORE and how the Consortium intends to position itself towards the long-term sustainability of the action.