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{"title":"Overcoming Challenges in Implementing Condition Monitoring Services: Recommendations from an Expert Elicitation Exploratory Study.","authors":"Ion Iriarte, Hien Nguyen Ngoc, Ganix Lasa","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.20044.2","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.20044.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Condition Monitoring Services (CMS) have emerged as an important digitally enabled service offering within manufacturing servitization, allowing Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to remotely monitor equipment, improve maintenance performance, and create new service-based revenue streams. Despite the technological maturity of condition monitoring technologies, many OEMs continue to struggle with the successful implementation of CMS. This study aims to identify the challenges limiting CMS implementation, the solutions used to overcome these challenges, and the recommendations that can support successful CMS implementation.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An exploratory expert elicitation approach was adopted. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 experts from OEMs, universities, research centres, and business consultancy organizations who possessed substantial experience in CMS implementation, digital servitization, and Industry 4.0. The interview data were analysed using inductive thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The findings reveal that the principal barriers to CMS implementation are socio-technical rather than technological. Three interrelated groups of challenges were identified: challenges related to CMS value propositions, challenges associated with CMS design processes, and challenges concerning organizational and customer readiness. To address these challenges, experts proposed solutions centred on value quantification, co-creative and iterative service design, and service-oriented organizational capability development. The study further identified recommendations emphasizing customer-value-driven CMS design, dedicated and legitimate service units, and proactive management of organizational change.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Successful CMS implementation depends less on the sophistication of condition monitoring technologies and more on the ability of OEMs to align technological resources, organizational capabilities, customer requirements, and value creation mechanisms. By providing empirically grounded insights into the challenges, solutions, and recommendations associated with CMS implementation, this study extends both CMS and digital servitization literature and offers actionable CMS-specific guidance for OEMs seeking to transform condition monitoring technologies into sustainable service businesses.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"5 ","pages":"151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13560564/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148957446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Empowering ECRs to make research projects flourish: lessons from a European research project.","authors":"Julius Schlumberger, Kelley De Polt, Judith N Claassen, Timothy Tiggeloven, Sophie L Buijs, Marleen C de Ruiter, Maria Vittoria Gargiulo, Joel C Gill, Núria Pantaleoni Reluy, Robert Šakić Trogrlić, Philip J Ward","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.21517.3","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.21517.3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Early Career Researchers (ECRs) are essential contributors to scientific innovation and research outcomes, yet their empowerment and development within research projects remains an underexplored area. While European and national initiatives provide valuable funding and career development opportunities, less attention has been given to how similar opportunities can be meaningfully integrated and supported within the structure of research projects themselves. Drawing on experiences from the EU Horizon 2020 project MYRIAD-EU, this perspective explores practical approaches to integrating ECR empowerment into collaborative, interdisciplinary research. Approximately 30% of the project consortium was made up of ECRs, whose involvement was facilitated through structural mechanisms such as the establishment of an ECR Board, direct representation in project management, and leadership opportunities within work packages. Additionally, ECRs co-organized dedicated events and actively fostered professional networks both within and beyond the project. These opportunities and activities benefitted the ECRs in multiple ways, including skill development and professional network formation. ECRs also offered various benefits to the project, including additional resources and ideas to successfully manage and conduct the project as a whole, as well as external recognition for its empowerment efforts. We showcase three types of activities, including structural involvement in project management, organizing events for ECRs, and efforts to form ECR networks. We identify and discuss three enabling factors that play a critical role in creating an empowering environment: advisory support, ECR agency, and other factors, such as project design. Within this perspective, we aim to encourage research projects and funding institutions to further build on these practices, ranging from low-hanging fruit to more high-effort, high-reward options, in order to foster environments where ECRs can grow into independent researchers with benefits for the projects as well.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"5 ","pages":"312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13191317/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148019151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Theorizing \"cultural signatures\" in worldwide personal networks.","authors":"José Luis Molina, Alejandro Dinkelberg, Miroslav Pulgar, Christopher McCarty, Miguel Ángel González-Casado, Ángel Sánchez","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.23361.3","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.23361.3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This paper advances the theory of \"cultural signatures\" in personal networks by integrating Goodenough's concept of propriospect-the individual's internalized model of culture-with a personal network approach to social structure. We define cultural signatures as the structural traces left by cultural institutions-such as associations, religious practices, or educational organizations-in personal networks. To illustrate this theoretical framework, we revisit Fredrik Barth's ethnography of Sohar, an Omani town characterized by multiculturality and gender segregation. Using the propriospect approach, we show how shared cultural codes of politeness and self-restraint sustain social diversity and how institutions (market, mosques, Wali court, and neighborhoods) shape the gendered topology of personal networks.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>To test the theoretical framework, we conducted a web survey in six countries selected across Gelfand's tight-loose cultural range, collecting 1,815 personal networks, about 300 by country, with egos nominating 30 alters and the alter-alter ties. Along with this rich structural information, participants provided sociodemographic data and information about their moral values. The data was analyzed using forest tree methods to predict the country of origin from structural, sociodemographic, or moral values variables.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We demonstrate that network structures, especially cohesion measures, significantly contribute to predicting respondents' cultural background (country of origin in this case), supporting the hypothesis that social interaction patterns encode identifiable cultural imprints.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>By linking cognitive models of culture with measurable meso-level social structures, the paper provides a conceptual and methodological framework for analyzing how cultural diversity manifests in patterns of social interaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"6 ","pages":"115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13555058/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148957468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Data stewardship in Italy: Findings from the first national survey.","authors":"Giulia Caldoni, Vittorio Iacovella, Emma Lazzeri, Liise Lehtsalu, Francesca Marchegiani, Mauro Paschetta, Valentina Pasquale, Giulia Pedonese, Andrea Tarallo","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.22183.2","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.22183.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research data management (RDM) plays a key role in ensuring research reproducibility and transparency by supporting data sharing in line with Open Science principles. Across the international landscape, professional figures supporting data management practices, such as data stewards (DSs), are emerging through a variety of career paths. The Italian Computing and Data Infrastructure (ICDI), together with the Horizon Europe Skills4EOSC project, conducted a national survey between April and December 2023 to map the presence, roles, and activities of data stewardship services across universities and research-performing organisations. The aim was to provide an initial overview of the Italian landscape, which is known to be fragmented and lacking of clear professional recognition for research support professionals. The survey, administered in Italian through the EUSurvey platform, consisted of 13 closed-ended questions addressing the professional background of DSs, their role and functions, and the structure of RDM support services. Data cleaning was performed on the 77 valid entries collected (out of 88 responses) before conducting the descriptive analyses. Results indicate that most institutions employ staff with DS functions, although these professionals are seldom formally recognised as DSs. The variety of job titles highlighted by the survey reflects the absence of a standardised professional profile. Among the RDM support tasks performed by DSs, the most common include FAIR data management support, data management plan writing, researcher training, and policy consultancy. These findings provided a basis for the establishment of the Italian Data Steward Community, aiming to overcome the fragmentation through peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and support, and to advance the definition of a professionalisation pathway for DSs in Italy. The findings of this survey can serve as a case study to help DSs, research data professionals, and policymakers in other countries to map and understand their local landscape.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"6 ","pages":"45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12972714/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147438135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Retrieval-grounded multilingual LLM assistance for island smallholder farmers.","authors":"Nikolaos Tantaroudas, Ilias Karachalios, Andrew McCracken","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.24512.1","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.24512.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Smallholder farmers on remote, depopulating islands have limited access to advisory services, and their locally specific agronomic knowledge, often expressed in regional dialect, is poorly represented in the corpora on which large language models are trained. A general-purpose chatbot therefore answers local questions fluently but unreliably. A conversational artificial intelligence assistant, <i>Falco eleonorae</i>, was developed for the farmers and cooperatives of Kythera and Antikythera, Greece.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The assistant is a thin Backend-for-Frontend proxy in front of a managed, geospatially aware agronomic agent, hosting no chat model of its own. Answer generation and tool selection are delegated to upstream models; a vision-capable model turns an uploaded field photograph into a short description, so only text reaches the agent; voice is transcribed by a managed speech-to-text service in a European Union region. Grounding uses tool-augmented retrieval rather than a self-hosted vector database: a Model Context Protocol tool queries a curated, read-only, bilingual data interface, and every request carries a geospatial Well-Known Text envelope anchoring the agent to the islands.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>It is deployed as a Greek-primary progressive web application supporting text, voice, and image input with streamed responses, suited to low digital literacy and poor connectivity. Locally scoped questions are answered from the pilot's editorially controlled records rather than the model's parametric memory, and content edits take effect on the next query without re-indexing. Safeguards include European Union data residency for speech, server-side editorial gating, rate limiting, output sanitisation, and erasure of chat content on account deletion.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>For a small, resource-constrained rural deployment, a managed and grounded multilingual assistant is more attainable and trustworthy than a bespoke self-hosted model. No formal user evaluation has yet been performed, and a structured field evaluation is the principal future work.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"6 ","pages":"262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13639351/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149129403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EUPopLink Country report - Spain.","authors":"Juan Roch, Luis Ramiro","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.23477.2","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.23477.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This report examines the evolution of Spain's relationship with Europe and the European Union (EU), focusing on how populism and Euroscepticism have developed within a political system that remains predominantly pro-European. Following the democratic transition, European integration became a central pillar of Spain's modernization and political legitimization, supported by a broad consensus among both elites and public opinion. While this consensus was challenged during periods of economic and political crisis, support for European integration has remained comparatively resilient. After the 2008 financial crisis, Podemos on the radical left and Vox on the radical right incorporated elements of Euroscepticism, though in distinct ways. Podemos advances a form of soft Euroscepticism, criticizing neoliberal EU policies and political elites while maintaining a fundamentally positive view of the European project and advocating institutional reform. In contrast, Vox promotes a more nationalist and confrontational discourse, portraying EU elites as part of a \"globalist\" agenda and advocating a restructuring of the EU toward greater national sovereignty. Despite the rise of these challengers, mainstream parties-namely the PSOE and the PP-have maintained strong pro-European positions. This report shows that Euroscepticism in Spain is largely context-dependent and expressed mainly through criticism of specific EU policies or elites rather than through a rejection of European integration itself. Overall, Spain continues to exhibit a predominantly pro-EU party system and public opinion. Although populist actors have increased the visibility of Eurosceptic narratives, these remain largely moderate, episodic, and unlikely to challenge the broad societal and party-political consensus in favor of European integration.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"6 ","pages":"114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13273243/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148280235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Citizens marine pilots: Increasing autonomous surface vehicles navigation capabilities with and for the public.","authors":"Simona Aracri, Fausto Ferreira, Angelo Odetti, Giorgio Bruzzone, Marco Bibuli, Roberta Ferretti, Gabriele Bruzzone, Cristiano Cervellera, Massimo Caccia, Matko Batoš, Ivan Lončar, Juraj Obradović, Natko Kraševac, Vanja Asanović, Slavica Tomović, Žarko Zečević, Luka Martinović, Igor Radusinović","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.21252.2","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.21252.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most of the world population lives by a water body. Observing, caring and understanding the ocean is vital for all. Among several branches of robotics - marine robotics creates the most interdisciplinary and participatory scientific pool, bringing citizen and scientists close to the use of aquatic robots. International efforts, such as the EU-funded MONUSEN project, are pioneering the technological transfer across borders, disciplines and people, therefore sustaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Goal 14 Life below Water). In particular, under MONUSEN we carried out two activities involving the general public, demonstrating the use and utility of cost effective technology. The first activity saw the presentation and usage of MARUS - Marine Robotic Unity Simulator - which offers advanced capabilities of generating realistic maritime environments allowing for closer-to-reality V&V - Verification & Validation - of applications developed for maritime vehicles. The second activity shared the functionality of the autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) SWAMP (Shallow Water Autonomous Multipurpose Platform). Participants piloted SWAMP ASV, collecting data along a predetermined path. Through the active involvement in data collection, they gained knowledge of state-of-the-art methods for controlling autonomous surface vehicles and contributed to a learning-by-imitation experiment. Both activities showed that the setting of the experiments and the visual interfaces effectively engaged a wide range of people belonging to different ages, cultures and education. The activities transferred new knowledge to the public, truly bringing them closer to the scientific work carried out in MONUSEN.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"6 ","pages":"21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13612996/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149066117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Operational assessment of a border management mobile app for traveller pre-registration.","authors":"Joanna Darmos, Ricardo Neisse, Sara Facchinetti, Enrique Cabello Pardos, Antonino Passarelli, Zdravko Kolev, Denis Destrebecq, Darek Saunders","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.22737.2","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.22737.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper presents the results of the App4EES pilot project, which developed and assessed a mobile app solution for the pre-registration of biometric and biographic data to improve the border crossing efficiency under the Entry/Exit System (EES) in the European Union. The project involved a real operational testing of the app at Stockholm Arlanda Airport, with over 1,600 travellers successfully completing the enrolment steps and providing valuable feedback. The results show that the app is effective in improving the efficiency of the border crossing process, ensuring compliance with data protection and cybersecurity standards, and providing a positive user experience. The app was designed to be intuitive and user-friendly, allowing travellers to easily pre-register their biometric and biographic data, including facial images and travel documents. To highlight the outcomes, this paper presents the first open and detailed evaluation of a traveller pre-registration system tested in real operational conditions with a high number of participants. The app demonstrated an average reduction of 30 seconds in border processing times for visa-exempt travellers, corresponding to a 25% improvement in overall efficiency compared to standard EES test procedures. Furthermore, the system effectively supported multi-traveller and family registrations, including minors, demonstrating its capacity to streamline pre-registration for diverse traveller profiles. The project outcomes have significant implications for the development of future border management systems, as they demonstrate the potential of mobile app solutions to enhance border crossing efficiency, improve user experience, and ensure data protection and cybersecurity. The project results also highlight the feasibility of integrating a mobile app solution with existing border management systems, including the EES, as well as the need for close collaboration between stakeholders, including border authorities, airlines, and technology providers.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"6 ","pages":"160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13560578/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148956857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ERGA-BGE reference genome of <i>Eunicella cavolini,</i> an IUCN Near Threatened Gorgonian of the Mediterranean Sea.","authors":"Didier Aurelle, Dorian Guillemain, Frédéric Zuberer, Denys Malengros, Astrid Böhne, Rita Monteiro, Thomas Marcussen, Torsten H Struck, Rebekah A Oomen, Alice Moussy, Corinne Cruaud, Karine Labadie, Lola Demirdjian, Caroline Belser, Patrick Wincker, Pedro H Oliveira, Jean-Marc Aury, Fergal Martin, Anne Lazar, Leanne Haggerty, Chiara Bortoluzzi","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.21514.2","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.21514.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The <i>Eunicella cavolini</i> reference genome provides an important resource to study the adaptation of this species to different environments and anthropic pressures. This species is impacted by human activities, including climate change, and this reference genome will be useful to study the genomic evolution of this species. The entirety of the genome sequence was assembled into 17 contiguous chromosomal pseudomolecules. This chromosome-level assembly encompasses 0.49 Gb, composed of 159 contigs and 46 scaffolds, with contig and scaffold N50 values of 7.7 Mb and 51.1 Mb, respectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"5 ","pages":"323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12759274/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145901776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Awareness, adoption readiness and barriers to the uptake of downstream space technologies among European SMEs: Findings from a cross-sectoral survey.","authors":"Michail Mitsouridis, Paraskevi Rampota, Christina Balla","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.24431.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.24431.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Downstream space technologies, including Earth Observation, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), and Satellite Communications, have considerable potential to support environmental monitoring, resource efficiency, and the green transition of European industry. However, evidence on the awareness, readiness, and adoption of these technologies among European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) remains limited. To address this gap, a cross-sectional survey was conducted on 503 respondents representing organisations across the 14 European industrial ecosystems. The survey examined sustainability practices, awareness and use of downstream space technologies, organisational readiness, perceived relevance, and barriers to adoption. The results show that sustainability is becoming an important strategic priority, with many organisations already implementing sustainability-focused solutions or planning to do so. In contrast, awareness and uptake of downstream space technologies remain low. Only a small proportion of respondents actively use space-based data and services, while many organisations report limited familiarity, insufficient technical expertise, and uncertainty regarding their business value. The most frequently identified barriers are unclear return on investment, implementation costs, lack of awareness of available solutions, and limited internal capabilities. Differences are also observed across company types and industrial ecosystems, with medium-sized enterprises generally demonstrating higher levels of awareness and readiness than smaller firms. These findings provide cross-sectoral assessments of awareness, adoption readiness, and barriers to the uptake of downstream space technologies among European SMEs, offering an evidence base to inform future research and innovation support activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"6 ","pages":"260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13562967/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148957502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}