End Users and Stakeholders
A provisional list of end-users and stakeholders who will potential interact with the TTO including the following:
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Practitioners in the rivers, deltas, estuaries and seas communities:
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Businesses (e.g. SME - Small to Medium Enterprise and MNC - Multi National Companies where appropriate)
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Marine Spatial Planners and river / coastal manager
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Terrestrial planners, regulatory authorities, and public agencies responsible for the monitoring of systems and responding to development proposals
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Organisations responsible for monitoring and regulating industries who routinely operate in river-sea systems
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Scientists from across a wide range of disciplines (cross-disciplinary scientists):
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Encouraging new member to use, or join, the infrastructure
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Data produced and associated methods and tools being developed and tested will be both of interest and subject to validation by the respective scientific communities to ensure validity and robustness
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Outputs from the project (e.g. scientific papers) will be subject to peer-review
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Public audiences:
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The wider public will be a target audience in terms of awareness of the roles and benefits of DANUBIUS-RI and the promotion of its public image (esteem)
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Involvement of local communities in citizen science initiatives including data collection
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Internal Stakeholders:
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Inventor(s) - to determine the most appropriate vehicle to protect their invention
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Business development specialists - based in the nodes and supersites to facilitate early identification, and realisation of, opportunities from their local scientific communities
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Nodes/Supersites - as the host institute of the inventor could also benefit from the invention
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Technology Transfer Office – where allowable could receive incentives based on successful realization of IP
