Request for Project Partners

The Request for Project Partners (RPP) defines your innovation. It is a rough outline of the roadmap needed to develop the idea into a commercialized product or service. The RPP is typically not yet mature enough to put on the TRL-scale*. Keep it short and sweet with your future customers top of mind, clearly stating the business case of the innovation.

* Technology Readiness Level

Owner of RPP:

Organization:

Adress:

E-mail:

Phone:

Title of proposal:

Date:

Deadline for expression of interest (filled in by SMTF):

Summary of RPP (ca 200 words)

Summarize your idea and the problem it solves, the competitive edge, the customer it’s for and the partners it needs.

Short summary of RPP (for high confidentially)

Background

Scope of the project

Define the limitations to your idea in terms of focus area, what it entails or possibly what it does not entail.

Preferred Partnership

What type of collaboration are you looking for? What kind of partners?

Opportunities for the partner

This is your sales pitch to collaborative partners. How will your prospective collaboration partners benefit from getting involved? What are the long- or short-term business opportunities?

Approaches should not include

If applicable, state methods, technology solutions or other variables that you have already ruled out.

Degree of confidentiality

Please choose one of the following alternatives:

Only summary of the RFD is to be sent out after OK from RFD-owner

RFD sent out to trusted partners after OK from RFD-owner

RFD set out in full text to the wider network

Week 1 - Issue of RFP to SMTF members

Week 3 - Deadline for expression of interest from members and issue of RFP to SARGASSO’s wider network

Week 4 - Members expression of interest sent to RFP-owner

Week 6 - Deadline for expression of interest from wider network

Week 7 - List of expression of interest sent to RFP-owner followed by a Skype meeting

Week 10 - Obligatory follow up of proceedings

The RFD-owner is obliged to provide information on the outcome of the results over a longer period of time as agreed with SMTF on a case to case basis.