Standards Innovation
Introduction
Standardization helps to bring solutions to the market. Standardization also serves as a catalyst for further innovation.
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10 ways standardization can boost your R&I project
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Standards and the process for developing them disseminate research and innovation knowledge to industry, society and public administrations.
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Standardization supports networking between different stakeholders, including scientific and commercial collaborators.
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Standards facilitate technology transfer, i.e. enable businesses to adapt their products/services quicker as they receive information about new and future standards.
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Standards can be used for the presumption of conformity with EU legislation.
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Standards ease access to public procurement markets through tenders/calls.
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Standards facilitate market acceptance by enabling interoperability and compatibility of innovative solutions with existing products, services, systems and processes.
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Standards facilitate trade by reducing technical barriers, being fundamental for the Single Market and for global trade.
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Standards support trust. They ensure your novel product, service or system complies with expectations and requirements of the market. Standards are a kind of common language in the market.
Standardization is a process based on openness, transparency, consensus, and most of all on building, managing and networking between different communities. With this, the claim is robust that standardization is a co-creation process with open innovation and cross-innovation aspects.
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Standards help to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which require consensus, collaboration and innovation.
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