INNOSUTRA · Innovation Processes in Surface Transport (INNOSUTRA)

The main objective of the INNOSUTRA project is ‘to assess the conditions, including policysupport, under which innovative concepts have a high chance of getting adopted and beingsuccessful’. The work will start from the state-of-the-art and results attained in previousresearch projects and actions dealing with innovation processes, not only at European butoften also at national or regional level, with the following goals targeted towards key action5. Firstly, to identify the paths that new innovative concepts usually follow, what keydeterminants are, which actors are involved, and what policy has been doing and can do.As part of this, a typology of variables will be established, which will determine the possiblepath options. This will be the basis for the identification of successful adoption paths.Illustrations will be provided of the performance of innovative concepts in the transportsector, covering the maritime and port, land and integrated transport sectors, fitting eachtime into one of the typology cells. A further goal will be to come up with clear policyrecommendations, identify best practices, barriers to implementation and transferability ofinnovative concepts and processes. Finally, the research will establish developmentsneeded in assessment methods, complementary tools and a methodological framework ifinnovative concepts are introduced. Stakeholder consultation, collaboration anddissemination is a strong thread running through the whole of the research as a means ofobtaining information, stimulating new thinking, providing feedback through peer review andstrengthening the link between research and policy making.