A new CEN and CENELEC Guide on the role of standards in support of Innovations and Technology Transfer has been published

A common misconception referring to standards is that standardization can block technology transfer and development and innovation. That is why the European organizations for standardization have adopted a new CEN-CENELEC Guide 39 on the role of standards in technology transfer, emphasizing that standards promote innovation in the market, thus counteracting the existing misconception.

CEN and CENELEC and their members are fully committed to strengthening links with researchers, innovators, while promoting standards as tools for channeling research results and innovative ideas into the market. Standards are increasingly recognized as a crucial tool to get the most out of research results. They form a common language that allows researchers, people and industry to communicate, produce and commercialize products and services. 

CEN-CENELEC Guide 39 gives real-life examples and focuses on patent and copyright and their coexistence with standardization

The main target audience of this Guide are researchers, providers of new technologies, entrepreneurs, and start-ups that are interested in making use of standardization to support a research outcome into a market innovation.

If you want to know more about CEN-CENELEC Guide 39, the so-called factsheet.