RTOs – Research and Technology Organisations
From the lab to your everyday life. RTOs innovate to improve your health and well-being, your safety and security, your mobility and connectivity. RTOs’ technologies cover all scientific fields. Their work range from basic research to new products and services development. RTOs are non-profit organisations with public missions to support society. To do so, they closely cooperate with industries, large and small, as well as a wide array of public actors.
EARTO Innovation Awards
The annual EARTO Innovation Awards is a competition open to all EARTO members. It rewards innovations with significant social and/or economic impact, produced or expected, with a major contribution from an EARTO member. An independent jury evaluates entries and selects the winners. The prizes are awarded at a special ceremony in Brussels in October with wide political and stakeholder participation.
ARMINES – Optimising biological pest control
CEA – Revolutionising the gas sensing industry
EURECAT – Flying robot makes sewer inspection safer and faster
RISE – Co-creating circular furniture loops
TNO – Turning organic waste into valuable raw materials
JOANNEUM – Vinyl records are back
FEDIT – Biodegradable bottles boost dairy industry
VTT – Powering our connected future
ARMINES – A new generation solution for business process management
TNO – Breakthrough in streaming virtual reality
ARMINES – Simulating surgery for better results
EURECAT – Creating a new vision for the ophthalmic industry
FEDIT – A step forward for rubber shoe soles
Fraunhofer – Enabling higher performance jet engines
VITO – A virtual ride down memory lane
Fraunhofer – Making liver surgery safer
Fraunhofer – A plug-and-play human
Tecnalia – Next generation generator
Helmholtz Association – Finding a needle in a haystack
TNO – Around the world in a day
CEA – A digital nose for success
VTT – Surfaces come to life
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RTOs’ Impact Delivered!
Because the RTO sector is not recognised in official OECD or EUROSTAT data, little systematic information about the sector is available. To help fill this gap, EARTO commissioned several fact-finding studies on the impact of RTOs over the years.
EARTO Economic Footprint Study: Impact of 9 European RTOs in 2016
IDEA Consult – March 2018
EARTO Economic Footprint Study: Impact of 9 European RTOs in 2014
IDEA Consult – December 2015
Getting the Balance Right: Basic Research, Missions and Governance for Horizon 2020
Technopolis – October 2012
Impacts of European RTOs: A Study of Social and Economic Impacts of Research and Technology
Technopolis – October 2010
