EU|BIC Essentials Deep Dive in Dublin: Incubation Services for Open Innovation
Practical workshop on how to build Corporate Open Innovation Challenges
Date & time: 19 November 2024, 14.00 – 16.00 GMT
Location: Guinness Enterprise Centre, Dublin (Conference Room 1&2)
By welcoming external actors, a corporation that goes for open innovation can benefit from more creative talent, and experts on adjacent fields, and build alliances with key partners. The spirit of open innovation relies on collaboration: by sharing ideas, experiences and knowledge, corporates can obtain more and better outcomes. At the same time, startups and innovative SMEs can access relevant future clients and develop success cases which help them scale up.
Collaboration to support startups and innovative SMEs is in the DNA of EU|BICs. Many EU|BICs connect to the main companies in their catchment area to trigger a locomotive effect on the business landscape and the economy and welfare of the territories. It is however not a straightforward process: what kind of challenges are corporations seeking to solve by connecting to regional SMEs and startups? How to work together?
This session aims to strengthen the approach of business support organisations to corporations. Co-organised with the EU-funded initiative EU-LAC Digital Accelerator, we will explore open innovation and corporate venturing. This workshop brings in the the methodology put in place by the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator that helps business support organisations identify a corporation’s processes that can be made more efficient by open innovation, in the form of digital transformation challenges.
Under the experienced guidance of Paco Prieto, TECNALIA, in a dynamic setting, seven corporates will head seven different tables, accompanied by incubation and acceleration experts to work together and implement a methodology to identify and shape mutually beneficial digital transformation challenges.
- A practical session giving EU|BICs methodologies to approach corporates and help define digital transformation challenges.
- Corporations will define their digital transformation roadmaps/challenges. These challenges can be uploaded into the EU-LAC platform, where corporates will get access to the following services: scouting startups in Latin America and the Caribbean; active and tailored matching; dedicated acceleration services both for the corporate & the startup to speed up the resolution of the challenge (with a value of up to 30.000€); international visibility
| Gains as a EU|BIC/ESO | If you are a corporate |
| – Insights on open innovation and corporate venturing. – A hands-on methodology and materials to co-design corporate digital transformation challenges. – Clear understanding of EU-LAC Accelerator. – Contacts with European corporates. | – Insights on open innovation and corporate venturing. – Corporate digital transformation challenges that can be included in the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator platform, matching with potential solvers and provided with in-kind acceleration services. – Access to EU|BICs’ community who can facilitate connection with innovative startups across Europe and beyond. |
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Registration
The EU|BIC Essentials Deep Dive | Incubation Services for Open Innovation is brought to you by EBN and the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator and is free of charge. Seats are limited (max 50 participants are allowed), make sure you reserve your ticket by following one of these options:
OPTION 1: If you are attending EBN Techcamp 2024, please register for the event and to the question “19 November – Which sessions will you attend?” please tick the following option:
- I will attend at 14:00 for “EU|BIC Essentials Deep Dive | Incubation Services for Open Innovation”
OPTION 2: If you are not planning to attend the EBN Techcamp 2024, but you want to attend the EU|BIC Essentials Deep Dive | Incubation Services for Open Innovation please send an email to: Chiara.Davalli@ebn.eu and Ruben.Carrandi@ebn.eu
EBN Techcamp 2024
The EU|BIC Essentials Deep Dive | Incubation Services for Open Innovation is organised back-to-back with the EBN Techcamp 2024. Transform. Innovate. Accelerate (Dublin, 20-21 November 2024). Co-hosted by EU|BIC Furthr, EBN Techcamp 2024 explores the impact Digital Transformation and AI are having on EU|BICs, ventures and investors. The event will take place at the Guinness Enterprise Centre, getting value out of the unique assets of the local ecosystem, especially when it comes to creative industries (gaming industry) and healthcare – two very strong clusters in the Irish innovation ecosystem.
Designed as a mix of inspirational talks and practical parallel sessions (workshops, panels, case studies, etc.), Techcamp 2024 will count on the participation of different experts (incubation managers, startups, corporates, investors, regional governments’ representatives, etc.) who will challenge the audience and will offer a comfortable space for peer learning and exchange.
About EU-LAC Digital Accelerator
The EU-LAC Digital Accelerator, a European project funded by the DG for International Partnerships, seeking to create connections between corporates and startups from the European Union, Latin America, and the Caribbean through open innovation. It was launched in January 2023 and is now working full speed. It will be offering until December 2027 tailor-made connections between the challenges of corporates in one of the three regions of the project, with startups and SMEs from the other two regions, as well as acceleration services to the partnership created to speed-up the resolution of the challenge and strengthen the collaboration between the corporate and the startup. First challenges of Latin American corporates have found as solvers startups supported by EU|BICs, and they are now working together and receiving in-kind acceleration services for a value of up to 30.000 EUR.
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