Recommendation 2022/2415 - Guiding principles for knowledge valorisation - Main contents

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 317/141

On 10 April 2008, the Commission adopted Recommendation 2008/416/EC (1) concerning the management of intellectual property (IP) in knowledge transfer activities and a Code of Practice for universities and other public research organisations. The Council welcomed and supported that Recommendation and Code of Practice in its Resolution of 30 May 2008 (2). Together, that Recommendation and Code of Practice gave impetus to many publicly funded knowledge producers. Some Member States have made strategic investments in knowledge transfer infrastructures and services such as technology transfer offices and other intermediaries, and some have implemented IP-specific policies. Further activities promoting knowledge transfer at Union level have been developed as part of the Innovation Union (2010).

The Council conclusions of 29 May 2018 on ‘Accelerating knowledge circulation in the EU’ considered that the Union needs to make full use of the relevant scientific and technological knowledge it produces and to ensure a more effective transfer of research and innovation (R&I) project results to society and industry in order to maximise the impact of R&I investment. The Council also invited Member States to step up efforts to examine and share best practices on knowledge transfer and called on the Commission to develop and implement a strategy for the dissemination and exploitation of R&I project results in order to further increase their availability and use and to accelerate their potential uptake.

The Commission communication of 10 March 2020 entitled “A New Industrial Strategy for Europe” and its 2021 update underlined the importance of IP management, in particular raising the research community’s awareness of IP, and announced a strategy on standardisation to support a more assertive stance regarding Union interests. The key priorities of the Union’s IP Action Plan of 25 November 2020 (3) to support the Union’s recovery and resilience include promoting the effective use and deployment of IP and ensuring easier access to and sharing of IP-protected assets in times of crisis.

The Union’s Strategy on Standardisation emphasises the importance of raising strategic awareness of standardisation among researchers and innovators and engaging the R&I community early on in standardisation, as a way of developing relevant expertise and skills. That Strategy also states that the Commission will develop a Code of Practice for researchers on standardisation to strengthen the link between standardisation and R&I.

The Council conclusions of 1 December 2020 on ‘The New European Research Area’ recognised that additional efforts are needed to translate the Union’s intellectual and scientific assets into new products and services that meet societal demands. The Council welcomed the Commission’s initiative to review Recommendation 2008/416/EC in accordance with the New Industrial Strategy for Europe.

The Council conclusions of 28 May 2021 on “Deepening the European Research Area: Providing Researchers with Attractive and Sustainable Careers and Working Conditions and Making Brain Circulation a Reality” stressed the importance of supporting reforms in the national research systems to ensure the attractiveness of research careers and address the divergence in remuneration levels while improving the reward and assessment...