As a member of the Nordic Technology Transfer Network, you are able to write and/or answer questions or just ‘tap’ onto the network’s flow of information.

You can join directly at www.theknowledgevine.net. Your question will then go directly out to all respondents and be posted at the network-forum.

Remember, however, that if you wish to answer a posed question, please do this directly and only to the person asking the question - their email address will be visible with their question.

1: You are only allowed to write one sentence.

2: The sentence must be a question (other than including an email signature of course).

3: If you know the answer to a question, and are able to disclose that information, only reply to the person asking the question.

4: No commercial advertising or offering of services, or offering of technologies.

5: From time to time we will renew the list of participants on our homepage. It is therefore necessary for you to accept, that your name and email will be shown on the list.

6: There are some Terms and Conditions to use the service, stated below. By using the service it is assumed that you have read and accept them.

We have found the more specific the question, the better the result and also the more likely the question will be forwarded on by people.

Broad questions are interpreted by people differently.  It may be that you are seeking very broad inputs – if this is the case it is best to state that clearly, and prepare for many answers to follow up on.

We have found that with such a large number of participants on the network, even the most precise/narrow questions receive high quality answers.

Feedback from users has been that writing a single sentence request is easier than it sounds, even for quite precise/complex questions.

The easiest way to structure the sentence is to ask “what you are seeking” first, followed by any “why/context” info if it adds value.

Some examples are:

1: "Has anyone got any contacts in the medical imaging software sector, as we have a new imaging method and are seeking industry views on its commercial value?”

2: “Does anyone have any market research information or expertise in the Danish plastics recycling sector, as we have a technology that has significant advantages in processing PVC?”

Worded this way round, means the reader can usually recognize half way through the sentence, that one does not need to read any further and can therefore skip the e-mail.
 

NTTN manual