Energy transition is the world challenge. To make it happen we need to implement sound knowledge-based technological ideas. What does it mean “sound” ideas? How can we implement such ideas? This workshop is aimed at trying to give different answers to this ambitious questions. This will be done starting from scientific presentations on certain renewable energy technologies. We will ask scientists to show the results of the SWOT analysis on the technologies they discussed. Then a multidisciplinary round table moderated by innovation managers will follow. Such round table will host policy makers, investors, scientists and entrepreneurs interested in trying to design an implementation plan on how to overcome the different barriers that may delay the innovation journey of the previously discussed technologies.