Get ready for adoption of innovation
Adoption of innovation
Prepare aims at creating new, more effective and sustainable policies and instruments that promote the adoption of impactful innovation, including via innovation procurement, at regional level, but also relevant and scalable across Europe.
The main goal of innovation adoption is to encourage the development of innovative solutions capable of enhancing services and addressing nowadays’ challenges. It acts as a facilitator for investments in the real economy, driving innovation and digitization to overcome existing barriers and promote transformative actions.
By aligning regional efforts with European priorities, the partners are poised to make significant advances in promoting sustainable growth, job creation, and improving services.
Demand driven innovation approach
At the heart of PREPARE’s approach is innovation adoption via partnership and innovation adoption. Unlike conventional practices, we steer away from purchasing standard products or services. Instead, our methodology involves issuing calls to address specific challenges currently unmet by the market. This collaborative process empowers companies to propose inventive solutions, fostering co-creation to meet unique needs effectively.
The innovation actors
cHALLENGER
Organizations with an unmet need (a challenge) that requires innovation to be solved
SUPPORTER
Entities with the capacity to solve those challenges
sOLVER
Clusters, associations or consultancies that can help to matchmake and deliver business value
instrument manager
Rolls out policy instruments, eg. launches calls, awards beneficiaries, supervises execution and transfers payments
funder
Assigns funds (eg. ERDF) to invest on innovation policies and instruments
Knowledge + Strategy + Funding = IMPACT
Knowledge relies on experiences and verified good practices of four partners with different levels of innovation performance. They will develop a deep understanding of the state of the art of innovation adoption, to overcome existing barriers by driving transformative actions in the related partners’ regions through Actions Plans. Other regions are invited to adopt innovation procurement driving plans, inspired by the project partners.
