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Impact design and exploitation of project results

Riccardo Varotto

Senior Project Manager at NSBProject

Venice, Italy

About

NSBproject is an Italian innovative SME specialised in innovation exploitation, business modelling, market validation and impact-driven strategy for European R&D projects.

As exploitation partner in Horizon Europe consortia, NSB supports coordinators and technology developers in transforming project results into credible market opportunities, investable business cases and scalable innovation pathways.

Our proprietary AI-powered platform, C-Tech Navigator®, combines competitive intelligence, technology assessment, IP screening, market analysis, funding intelligence and customer insights to evaluate the real exploitation potential of Key Exploitable Results (KERs). The platform helps consortia move beyond traditional dissemination plans towards evidence-based exploitation strategies and investment readiness.

NSB can contribute to:

• Exploitation strategy design and implementation
• Identification, assessment and prioritisation of Key Exploitable Results (KERs)
• Technology Positioning Assessments, including readiness scoring, competitive landscape analysis and freedom-to-operate screening
• Use Case Assessments with validation of buyer needs, decision-making processes, market attractiveness and economic viability
• Business model development and investment-readiness reviews
• Market, competitor and value-chain analysis
• Stakeholder engagement and industrial user involvement
• Pilot use-case definition and validation pathways
• Dissemination, communication and uptake activities to maximise project impact

Through our extensive European network, we facilitate collaboration between industry, SMEs, research organisations, universities, clusters and end-users, supporting consortia from proposal preparation through project execution and final exploitation planning.

Partner sought: Coordinators, RTOs, universities looking for a dedicated exploitation partner able to bridge technology readiness, market validation and investment readiness.

Stage

  • Ideation - identifying the project idea

Topic

  • CL4-INDUSTRY | RAW_MAT | MATERIALS-61: Technologies for critical raw materials and strategic raw materials from end-of-life product
  • CL4-INDUSTRY | RAW_MAT | MATERIALS-62: Strategic Partnerships for Raw Materials: Innovative Approaches for sustainable production of Critical Raw Materials
  • CL4-INDUSTRY | RAW_MAT | MATERIALS-63: Innovative solutions for the sustainable production for Semiconductor raw materials
  • CL4-INDUSTRY | ADV_MAT | MATERIALS-44: Innovative Advanced Materials Innovation Procurement
  • CL4-INDUSTRY | ADV_MAT | MATERIALS-45: Materials Commons for Europe
  • CL4-INDUSTRY | SSbD | MATERIALS-52: Accelerate the uptake of life-cycle assessment (LCA) for Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) chemicals and materials and resulting products
  • CL4-INDUSTRY | TEXTILES | MATERIALS-31: Digitally enabled local-for-local textile and apparel production (Textiles for the Future Partnership)

Call

  • Cluster 4 2025 Call - INDUSTRY two-stage: all topics

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