Working Group 6

WP6 bridges academia and industry, facilitating engagement, collaboration, and technology translation of MOF innovations towards real-world applications.

Objective:

• Bridge academia and industry to facilitate the translation of MOF research into real-world applications.
• Strengthen collaboration between researchers, industrial partners, and end-users across the MOF value chain.
• Promote industrially relevant performance evaluation, benchmarking, and validation of MOF technologies.
• Support technology transfer and commercialization pathways to maximize the societal and economic impact of MOF innovations.

Tasks:

• Establish and expand an industrial network to foster collaboration, knowledge exchange, and joint research activities.
• Identify industrial challenges and application needs to guide future research and innovation within the Action.
• Facilitate interactions between academic researchers and industrial stakeholders through workshops, networking events, and brokerage activities.
• Promote best practices for technology translation, industrial validation, and real-world performance assessment of MOF technologies.
• Support collaboration on intellectual property, scale-up, commercialization, and market adoption strategies.

Deliverables

D6.1: A report summarizing industrial needs, collaboration opportunities, and technology translation priorities for MOF research.
D6.2: Best-practice recommendations for academia–industry collaboration and industrial validation of MOF technologies.
D6.3: An active industrial stakeholder network supporting collaboration, knowledge exchange, and technology uptake.

D6.4: A roadmap for accelerating the translation and commercialization of MOF innovations.

WG6 Leader: Dr. Lisa SUN (l.m.sun@bham.ac.uk)

WG6 Co-Leader: Dr. Selina Ambrose (selina.ambrose@proparticles.co.uk)