Make Innovation Happen: Scientific and Statistic Tools to Accelerate the Way Toward Technology Readiness Level TRL 9 – a Deployed Application

Abstract

We consider some tools / methodologies, scientific & statistics based, to design and optimize technological processes and the resulting products, by providing finally a robust design. Being implemented in R&D labs, such tools and methodologies could enable a faster skip from lab experiments to real world (i.e. Technology Readiness Level TRL 9) by catalyzing innovation, problem solving and even discovery. At the end of the day to make innovation happen. We present also a successful example of application of such approach, to open also a larger discussion about the opportunity of intensively using such approach for nano scale organized materials and further products, with application also in biomedical engineering.