LOGINN - LOGistics INNovation uptake
Overview
Background & policy context:
Over the past decade, several research initiatives have researched and proposed innovative solutions for transport logistics, but the level of adoption in the transport industry has been low, in particular when comparing with other industry sectors. This is due on one side to the transport industry itself, facing issues like a fragmented market structure, price pressure and a high degree of outsourcing, and on the other to the lack of dissemination to relevant stakeholders that has characterized many innovation projects logistics.
Objectives:
LOGINN aims at co-ordinating and supporting RTD projects in the logistics area to improve their capabilities to bridge the gap between pilot implementation and marketable solutions. The main objective is to create a platform to stimulate discussion and consensus-building amongst main public stakeholders, market players and researchers in the intermodal and freight logistics domain in order to facilitate and accelerate the commercial uptake of logistics innovation, by turning knowledge and research into investment in innovation. Logistics innovation, within the scope of this project, encompasses innovative business models within the supply chain, innovative logistics practices, and innovative technologies.
Methodology:
LOGINN will drive innovation adoption in transport logistics by taking a holistic approach that considers several mutually reinforcing aspects of innovation: business models, logistics practices and technologies. This approach will favour the customisation of RTD results towards industrial demand solutions, supporting the development of sustainable business plans for European RTD projects, exploiting synergies between European RTD projects to enable a seamless exchange between RTD projects and logistics stakeholders and finally enabling and supporting the access to Investors.
The following issues will be addressed:
- Raising the profile and understanding of intermodal and freight logistics innovation
- Identifying policies, regulatory measures, financial mechanisms and socio-economic aspects that are required in support of accelerating the development and diffusion of logistics innovation
- Encouraging greater involvement in and acceptance of innovations in the public as well as private sector
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