3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
supporting (with a relatively moderate funding grant per item) more exploratory projects
that have relatively small probability of success, but with significant potential for disruption
if their goals are achieved.
7.3 LUX-TIR One-for-One PPP. A clear trend in providing financial support to RDI for industry is
to form public-private partnerships (PPPs) that have the main purpose of using public
funding to leverage an equal (or higher) investment by the private side. For clear reasons of
strategic business protection, it is usually very hard to actually quantify the investment
from the private side, which may somewhat limit the effectiveness of the PPP. The aim of
the LUX-TIR One-for-One PPP project is to formulate an alternative form of PPP in view of
the distributed collaboration schemes that will characterize the post-Third Industrial
Revolution society. The idea is that for each unit of public funding that a company receives
for the support of strategic RDI, the company must invest an equal amount for outsourced
research, commissioned to either the University of Luxembourg, or to research institutes in
Luxembourg, or even strategic (but public) research partners from Europe and around the
world. This mechanism holds the potential of boosting the open innovation paradigm.
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