Bridging the gap

To be able to bridge the identified gap there is a need of:

• Financial bridges like EC or national calls specified for verification of methods as well as other steps of the transfer process. Collaboration with final users and CROs.

• Intellectual and cultural bridges like brokers, meetings and networking. Forinvitox could be one of the bridges.

• Specified calls for optimisation, validating, implemen tation and technology transfer for academia as well as companies that could be organized in cooperation between national funds and European Commission.

• Criteria for the different steps of developing a new method.

• Closer collaboration between the stakeholders, the academic scientists, industry (manufacturers and final users) and legal authorities at an early stage of the development.

• Stimulating and facilitating the discussion between inventors and producers and users with technology transfer knowledge.

• Intellectual and cultural bridges like brokers, meetings and networking.

• Facilitating the matching of inventions with applications.