This online tool is designed to strengthen and facilitate communication between industry and academia by providing a structured way to define and address industrial challenges, or in other words, fascilitate open innovation. Through the sections below, you will find all the elements needed to better understand your opportunity for collaboration with academic resources. The tool guides both innovators as well as challenge owners in identifying the required information, knowledge, and expertise, enabling you to clearly assess your current situation and easily define a specific challenge. In doing so, you can effectively leverage academic capabilities and resources to address your industrial needs and drive innovation.
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Explore the RobotORRI tool
Define your Challenge
The RobotORRI program has conducted several open innovation initiatives to facilitate collaboration between challenge owners and innovators. As a starting point, we developed a lean challenge template that enables innovation seekers to clearly and thoroughly define their challenges, allowing innovators and researchers to address them more effectively.
All Challenges
At the link below, you can find the page with all our challenges from the robotics sector. Browse them to find one that you can contribute to or solve.


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