EU Innovation Radar highlights developments from the Human Brain Project

Check out the results of the EU’s innovation radar at https://innovation-radar.ec.europa.eu/ and find HBP-Innovations with the search term “Human Brain Project”.

The list is based on an assessment by the Joint Research Center JRC, that categorises the innovations by different readiness levels and market creation potential. Below are some selected examples from the latest update of the Innovation Radar assessment. The list includes information on the innovation, the HBP project phase and HBP-consortium partner leading the development, as well as the relation to the UNs Sustainable Development Goals.
Some examples:

A high-channel count neuroprosthesis to restore rudimentary vision for blind individuals
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen - KNAW - The Netherlands

CESPAR - Digital twin simulations of coupled assistive robotic devices and human musculoskeletal systems for neurorehabilitation
Alpine Instuition Sarl – Switzerland

Health Data Cloud – Virtual Research Environment for legally compliant research on sensitive data operated and maintained by CHARITE
Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin – Germany

openMINDS: an expert and community-driven metadata framework for linked data in neuroscience
Universitetet I Oslo - Norway
Forschungszentrum Julich Gmbh - Germany
Centre national de la recherche scientifique CNRS - France

Perturbational Complexity Index for detecting consciousness (PCI)
Universita Degli Studi Di Milano – Italy

Prostheses for spinal cord neurostimulation
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois - Switzerland
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne - Switzerland

Virtual Brain Cloud – Service for Human Digital Twin Simulations in public Clouds
Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin - Germany

Bayesian Virtual Epileptic Patient (BVEP): Personalized brain models for better surgery outcome in epilepsy
University of Marseille

SpiNNaker - a Spiking Neural Network architecture – a digital neuromorphic computing platform for brain modelling and energy-efficient AI
The University of Manchester

MIP – The Medical Informatics Platform for Privacy Preserving, Federated Data Processing and Analytics
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois – Switzerland

About the Innovation Radar 

The Innovation Radar aims to identify high-potential innovations and innovators. It is an important source of actionable intelligence on innovations emerging from research and innovation projects funded through European Union programmes. Data underpinning the Innovation Radar stem from a survey developed by the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CONNECT) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. This survey is conducted during periodic reviews of collaborative projects funded through European Union (framework) programmes like Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020.

4 Maturity Levels of innovations

To capture the different maturity levels of innovations towards commercialisation, four innovation categories have been created based on respective scores of the Innovation Management and Innovation Readiness Indicators: Market Ready, Tech Ready, Business Ready and Exploring. The 'Market Creation Potential’ Indicator (MCPI) is a novel indicator system that automatically categorizes innovations in terms of disruptive potential. Innovations that show signs of such market creation potential are then assigned one of 5 levels (from ‘low’ to ‘very high’). More about the JRCs methodology can be found here.