PoliRural+ — Bridging Rural and Urban Europe · knowledge baseInteractive book · llms.txt · For AI agents

Key exploitable results (KERs)

Six project-level results with business potential, five pilot-level ones, and the scoring rule that decides which survive into the final exploitation plan.

Which key exploitable results does D7.4 name, and how will the final selection be made?

At project level: the Advisor knowledge space, the Multi-Actor Approach Tool, JackDaw, rural circular-economy funding business models, Vulture and the AI advisory Dashboard. At pilot level there are five, such as smart-village hubs and cross-border innovation hubs. The final selection comes in D7.8, scored by a KER index that multiplies innovation, exploitability and impact ratings, with each result assigned to one of five exploitation spheres.

Open in the interactive book · missions, mini-games and memory cards there

Key exploitable results of PoliRural+ by sphere of exploitation (D7.4)D7.4 sorts the project's key exploitable results into five spheres; all except the business and finance sphere are meant to stay mainly free and open source. Six project-level results with business potential, from the Advisor knowledge space and the MAAT tool to JackDaw, Vulture and the Dashboard, have revenue models such as subscriptions, SaaS and licensing, and the pilots add five local ones. Four types of partner exploit them, and a KER index (innovation x exploitability x impact) guides the final choice in D7.8.Key exploitable results: five spheres, six with a business model 1 Societal and social social change in everyday practice mostly free, open 2 Research and innovation more research with academia, projects mostly free, open 3 Education and training capacity building: tools and skills mostly free, open 4 Business and finance growth, investors, revenue models revenue models 5 Policy making influence policy at every level mostly free, open PROJECT KERs WITH BUSINESS POTENTIAL (D7.4 Table 12) Knowledge Space: Advisor subscription service; TRL 7 Multi-Actor Approach Tool SaaS for regions, agencies; TRL 7 Attractiveness mapping: JackDaw consultancy, data plans, licensing Rural circular-economy models advisory, finance via incubators AI foresight: Vulture premium research service AI advisory: Dashboard B2B subscription for rural SMEs PILOT-LEVEL KERs WITH LOCAL BUSINESS POTENTIAL (Table 13) Smart Villages Digital Hub Renewable energy entrepreneurship Participatory governance models Tourism and agri- business accelerator Cross-border innovation hubs Who exploits them (Table 11) regional development organisations academic and research partners consultancy and commercial partners owner, TRL and IPR of each result: Results Database Choosing the final KERs KER index = Innovation × Exploitability × Impact each rated Low 1, Medium 2 or High 3 by the owner or a stakeholder jury; final choice in D7.8
D7.4 sorts the project's key exploitable results into five spheres; all except the business and finance sphere are meant to stay mainly free and open source. Six project-level results with business potential, from the Advisor knowledge space and the MAAT tool to JackDaw, Vulture and the Dashboard, have revenue models such as subscriptions, SaaS and licensing, and the pilots add five local ones. Four types of partner exploit them, and a KER index (innovation x exploitability x impact) guides the final choice in D7.8.

Key exploitable results: what is meant to outlive the project

main tellingdepth: standard3 min markdown

A key exploitable result (KER) is a project result that someone is expected to keep using after the grant ends, by its owner or by others through licensing or transfer. D7.4 (edition 1) sorts the KERs into five spheres of exploitation: Societal & Social, Research & Innovation, Capacity Building & Education & Training, Business & Innovation & Financial, and Policy Making.

Project-level KERs with business potential

KER (D7.4, Table 12)What it isExploitation route D7.4 names
Enhanced Rural-Urban Knowledge Space (PoliRuralPlus Advisor)knowledge platform: policy insights, stakeholder mapping, data visualisationsubscription service
Multi-Actor Approach Tool (MAAT)stakeholder engagement and participatory governance platformSaaS for regional governments and agencies
Spatial Enhanced Attractiveness Mapping Toolbox (JackDaw)GIS-enabled tool for rural attractiveness and investment analysisconsultancy, analytics subscriptions, licensing to authorities
Rural Circular Economy Funding Business Modelsbusiness models for waste-to-resource, short food chains and similaradvisory and financing via incubators and financial institutions
AI-Based Foresight & transform work (Vulture)co-design environment for AI-assisted planning and policy workpremium research service
AI-Powered Advisory Tools (Dashboard)AI advisory and business intelligence for rural SMEsB2B subscription

At pilot level, D7.4 lists five results with local business potential: a Smart Villages Digital Hub, Renewable Energy Entrepreneurship Programs, Digital Participatory Governance Models, a Business Accelerator for Rural Tourism and Agribusiness, and Cross-Border Innovation Hubs.

The Results Database (Annex C, state of 2 May 2025) adds readiness levels: Hub4Everybody is a product at TRL 9, while the Advisor and the MAA-tool are at TRL 7.

Free for most, paid only in one sphere

The routes in the table are potential routes. D7.4 states that, except for the business sphere, most KERs will be free and open source, and that the platform itself will be a free, open-source cloud service. An open Dashboard of services will let third parties add services. The recommendations name Apache 2 licensing, with dual licensing reserved for premium commercial versions.

How the final list is chosen

The owner of a result, or a jury of stakeholders, rates it High (3), Medium (2) or Low (1) on innovation, exploitability and impact. The KER index is the product of the three ratings; weights may shift by sphere. The final choice of KERs, and who exploits each, is due in the final edition, D7.8, at the end of the project.

D7.4 adds its own caution: most of these tools target municipalities, so they succeed only once they are part of government workflows and have lasting funding. That is the subject of what remains.

Play

Related

Sources