When dealing with innovation, the list of existing good practices is critically relevant for further exploration, transfer and scale-up. While the selection of existing practices that can be considered as good can be tailored to individual needs of a specific innovative solutions, the measures to objectively evaluate the potential of good practices and assign a value/indicator, with which they can be compared among each other.

A good practice in the marine biotechnology sector can be either a study, product, project, prototype or any type of other innovative engagement that might lead to novel products and processes.

Focusing on the marine (blue) biotechnology sector, we have prepared a Good Practice calculator (GP calculator) that enables the users to objectively quantify the potential for individual good practice.

The GP calculator can be used as a self-assessment tool or when evaluating other good practices. We advise that the evaluation of good practices is done either through self-assessment or direct interviews with people in charge of the good practice development, who can have the necessary answers to the evaluation questions.

By clicking »Go to calculator« button below, the user should:

  1. Describe the good practice:
    1. Name of the good practice
    2. Country/countries involved
    3. Time/duration of the good practice
    4. Type of partnership
    5. Short description of the good practice
    6. Sector, addressing the good practice (e.g., agriculture, aquaculture, bio-inspired materials, biomedical, biorefinery, bioremediation/ecosystem restoration/environmental biotechnology, cosmetics/wellbeing, energy, nutraceuticals, industrial processes (enzymes, catalysis, etc.), food and feed, pharmaceuticals, waste valorization, circular economy, other)
    7. Target organism (e.g., microalgae, macroalgae, bacteria, invertebrates, other)
    8. The availability of results
    9. Whether the market search has been done
    10. Type of outreach activities, if any (e.g., conference presentations, poster, brochure, marketed product, report, article, etc.)
    11. TRL (Technology Readiness Level)
  2. Based on the description and the TRL of the good practice, the GP calculator will automatically select direct the user on the set of pre-defined questions:
    1. Low TRL levels (up to 5) are evaluated only on their inovativeness potential
    2. Higher TRLs are also evaluated on their feasibility, scalability and replicability potential
  3. The user is guided through a set of questions that are individually ranked and weighted. The final output of the GP calculator provides individual scores for innovativeness, feasibility, scalability and replicability (where applicable) and gives the final averaged score. The colour code of individual scores denote a low GP potential (red highlight), medium (orange highlight) or high (green highlight) potential.
  4. The output can be saved as .pdf for future reference

 

The results of individual GP are not stored locally, so all good practices can maintain their confidentiality.

The methodology behind the calculations is detailed in the manuscript by Rotter et al., that is in preparation.

 

 

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Further information: Ana Rotter (ana.rotter@nib.si)