As scientific research projects turn increasingly into development projects, funding bodies consider projects as business opportunities, where the research aims at a product that can be exploited commercially.
Scientists are often not prepared to consider exploitation strategies in their projects but nowadays, it is with this mindset that they must tackle the preparation of projects.
The points below are what a project has to settle before a proposal can be written: what it is for, who it is with, how the work divides, what it costs and what happens to the results. The list is not exhaustive — every project differs — but working through it in order is the fastest way we know to turn an idea into an outline a consortium can agree on.
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