Precompetitive Projects Research Articles

The Translational Data Catalog - discoverable biomedical datasets

The discoverability of datasets resulting from the diverse range of translational and biomedical projects remains sporadic. It is especially difficult for datasets emerging from pre-competitive projects, often due to the legal constraints of data-sharing agreements, and the different priorities of the private and public sectors. The Translational Data Catalog is a single discovery point for the projects and datasets produced by a number of major research programmes funded by the European Commission. Funded by and rooted in a number of these European private-public partnership projects, the Data Catalog is built on FAIR-enabling community standards, and its mission is to ensure that datasets are findable and accessible by machines. Here we present its creation, content, value and adoption, as well as the next steps for sustainability within the ELIXIR ecosystem.

How Can Academia Help Industry Reduce the Footprint of Chemicals Manufacture?

Industrial representatives from the Swiss chemistry ecosystem met to formulate unmet needs in thefield of sustainability and share the content of the exchange. The aim is to spark inspiration and trigger ambitiousand pre-competitive projects collectively at the interface of the academic and industrial worlds, with the hopeto profoundly change the current practices and provide an answer to some of the most urgent environmentalchallenges.

Challenges to open innovation in traditional SMEs: an analysis of pre-competitive projects in university-industry-government collaboration

Governments are increasingly focusing their efforts on stimulating innovation within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). As a result, university-industry-government collaboration is gaining importance among the agenda of policymakers to enable open innovation in SMEs. However, these inter-organisational relationships often fail to meet expectations, especially when projects are oriented to pre-competitive R&D. Nevertheless, the literature has not yet provided sufficient evidence of the challenges related to the participation of traditional SMEs (i.e., low- and medium-low tech SMEs) in this specific type of collaboration. We collected qualitative data to analyse longitudinally three pre-competitive projects, exploring the main challenges faced by traditional SMEs. We have bracketed the projects in four phases: initiation and planning phase, execution phase, closing phase, and monitoring and control phase. For each of these phases we have individuated firm- and project-level challenges, providing practical and theoretical insights for open innovation scholars.

Explicit interaction information from WikiPathways in RDF facilitates drug discovery in the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform.

Open PHACTS is a pre-competitive project to answer scientific questions developed recently by the pharmaceutical industry. Having high quality biological interaction information in the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform is needed to answer multiple pathway related questions. To address this, updated WikiPathways data has been added to the platform. This data includes information about biological interactions, such as stimulation and inhibition. The platform's Application Programming Interface (API) was extended with appropriate calls to reference these interactions. These new methods of the Open PHACTS API are available now.

Explicit interaction information from WikiPathways in RDF facilitates drug discovery in the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform

Open PHACTS is a pre-competitive project to answer scientific questions developed recently by the pharmaceutical industry. Having high quality biological interaction information in the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform is needed to answer multiple pathway related questions. To address this, updated WikiPathways data has been added to the platform. This data includes information about biological interactions, such as stimulation and inhibition. The platform's Application Programming Interface (API) was extended with appropriate calls to reference these interactions. These new methods of the Open PHACTS API are available now.

Explicit interaction information from WikiPathways in RDF facilitates drug discovery in the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform

Open PHACTS is a pre-competitive project to answer scientific questions developed recently by the pharmaceutical industry. Having high quality biological interaction information in the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform is needed to answer multiple pathway related questions. To address this, updated WikiPathways data has been added to the platform. This data includes information about biological interactions, such as stimulation and inhibition. The platform's Application Programming Interface (API) was extended with appropriate calls to reference these interactions. These new methods of the Open PHACTS API are available now.

PreAmp—a Pre-competitive Project in Intelligent Manufacturing Technology: an Architecture to Demonstrate Concurrent Engineering and Information Sharing

Pre-competitive research and development is one method of examining industry-wide concerns and determining future directions It disperses the cost and risk of such projects across many companies. The subject of this paper is one such project in the area of design and manufacturing of printed circuit assemblies (PCAs) known as Pre Amp The paper discusses the Pre Amp origin, its goals, and technology issues to be assessed by the program. It continues with an in-depth discussion of the Pre Amp system architecture and the components of that architecture. The paper highlights knowledge acquisition and rule definition architecture Discussion continues with system components that address new concepts in concurrent engineering (e.g. manufacturing resource editor and producibility advisor). The paper concludes with a summary of how Pre Amp supports concurrent engineering and a schedule of system prototypes and pilots.