Report on state-of-the-art elaboration of business plans by RI managers/owners

This deliverable will present the results of the collection of information on the business plan evaluation in the national RI's roadmapping and in internal assessment exercises. The reliverable will take the form of a Report and look at: - what methods are generally implemented for establishing the business plan, depending (or not) on the type of RIs - how the components are included in the business plan - how the socio economic parameters and the full life cycle are included - what fee structure and commercial policy are in place - what others challenges the RI’s encounter to establish a business plan - what are the key-parameters that are required for appraising a major change in the RI’s lifecycle (up-grades, extensions, modernization, shut-down), - what procedures exist for establishing internal evaluations of business plans, - what are the weak points in business plans’ elaboration and the measures taken to strengthen the business case of RI