Webinar: From Science to Innovation - Potential, Pitfalls and Pathways to Impact

The PurPest webinar explores how publicly funded research can be translated into practical innovation that creates societal, environmental, and economic value. It considers the European policy perspective on research and innovation, the opportunities and limitations involved in moving from discovery to application, and the factors that determine whether scientific outputs ultimately become usable, actionable, and adoptable. Topics include knowledge transfer, stakeholder engagement, innovation ecosystems, public–private collaboration, and pathways from research to policy and practice. Speakers ● Andrea Ficke — NIBIO, Norway (welcome and closing remarks) ● Gisela Quaglia — DG AGRI, European Commission ● Sophien Kamoun — The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK ● Steven Johnson and Lindsay Stringer — University of York, UK Moderators ● ‪@david-pires‬ — ‪@iniav-i.p.‬, Portugal (webinar moderator) ● Cláudia Costa — ‪@food4sustainabilitycolab227‬, Portugal (roundtable moderator)