Innovation Management in 6G research: the case of Hexa-X project

Dario Sabella (1) , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy (2) , Giada Landi (3) , Giovanni Nardini (4) , Mattia Merluzzi (5) , Marko Leinonen (6) , Aarno Parssinen (6) , Panagiotis Demestichas (7) , Sokratis Barmpounakis (7) , Esther Garrido Gamazo (8) , Aurora Ramos (8) , Andreas Wolfgang (9)

1 INTEL
2 Telecom Orange
3 NeXtworks - NeXtworks SRL [Pisa]
4 University of Pisa - Università di Pisa
5 DSYS - Département Systèmes
6 University of Oulu
7 Wings ICT Solutions
8 Atos Spain
9 Qamcom Research and Technology

Very often in the past, innovations from research communities have been disconnected from industry adoption, leading to a lack of exploitation of research projects. To overcome this issue, in the view of future 6G systems, the HexaX project is putting in place an Innovation Management (IM) process, aiming to facilitate and promote innovation opportunities based on project outcomes and ensure that all the ideas emerging from the project are captured and tracked, not "lost". Focus of IM is on supporting the project to promptly identify innovations and engage with emerging innovation needs in the sector, for identifying gaps and potentials with strategic value. This paper presents the IM approach in Hexa-X and the main innovations (awarded by the EC Innovation Radar), with particular emphasis on the technical aspects of these findings coupled with their identified strategic value for future 6G market exploitation.

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Dario Sabella, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, Giada Landi, Giovanni Nardini, Mattia Merluzzi, et al.. Innovation Management in 6G research: the case of Hexa-X project. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2023, pp.1 - 7. ⟨10.1109/MCOM.018.2300040⟩. ⟨cea-04292148⟩