Workshop: "Test faster and scale smarter: Improving access for companies to European research and technology infrastructures"

This session will showcase a real-world success story of collaboration between a company and a technology infrastructure (TI), demonstrating how streamlined access, whether through simplified contracts, cross-border facility use, or tailored support, can drive breakthroughs. By highlighting practical solutions to common barriers, we’ll explore how these principles, if scaled, could transform the European innovation landscape.

 The discussion will feature firsthand perspectives from an innovative company and the infrastructure host to foster a constructive dialogue on improving access for industrial users. Through this exchange, we’ll identify actionable ways to make Europe’s world-class research and technology infrastructures more responsive to business needs, ensuring that cutting-edge ideas move from lab to market faster and smarter.

Speakers:

• Magnus Wikander, Business Development Manager for Hydrodynamics and Testing at RISE Maritime (SSPA Maritime Center)

• Jonas Genchel, CEO and co-founder of Zparq