DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION

As a prominent participant in the Hungarian research, development, and innovation ecosystem, the Hungarian Research Network delivers cutting-edge and internationally competitive research performance in Hungary, as evidenced by the output and citation index of its publications. Numerous research findings are generated with HUN-REN, which have the potential to be transferred and utilized in the creation of intellectual works that directly benefit the economy and society.

In order to increase the competitiveness of research sites, the Hungarian Research Network has created an internal Innovation Program designed to maximize the intellectual property portfolio, the public research services and the research infrastructure in the research network, as well as leverage the use of external research funding opportunities.

The main elements of this network-level Innovation Program are:

    - the HUN-REN advisory network to support research utilization and external fundraising,

    - the HUN-REN Innovation Fund and internal incentive scheme for more intensive research utilization and development of larger, more complex research projects,

    - an analytical evaluation system with a focus on research utilization and competitive tendering, as well as related databases for the presentation of competencies (intellectual property portfolio, competitive tendering portfolio, public research services portfolio, research infrastructure map),

    - renewable intellectual property protection and utilization framework (renewal of intellectual property management, development of research utilization strategy)

    - supporting the acquisition of knowledge and increasing awareness related to intellectual property protection,

    - tendering resource map and specialist events to provide the general conditions to support the involvement of external resources.

The HUN-REN Innovation Program was developed and it is operated by the experts working at the Innovation Department within the HUN-REN HQ, who perform their tasks at the Tender Project Management and Monitoring Division and the Research Utilization Division under the Department.