The Innovation Platform
Challenge based innovation to boost entrepreneurship
Access the finest international entrepreneurship minds and find innovative solutions to your community's challenges with the Innovation Platform!
A win-win situation
Through the Innovation Platform, you can solve your city's social goals while simultaneously boosting the entrepreneurial potential of the region.
How? You pose challenges, and we find the entrepreneurs, from a pool of international minds, that have the solutions to your challenges.
Challenge-based innovation is a win-win - you solve your city's most pressing issues while stimulating a start-up friendly ecosystem and positioning yourself as an innovation hub.
With the Innovation Platform, you will simultaneously achieve your social objectives, leading to a better quality of life and increased social wellbeing for your citizens.
How it works
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A city, university or corporation posts their challenge on the platform
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Entrepreneurs Pitch Solutions
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The city, university or corporation incubates the most promising
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Winners emerge with first client (the Challenge Owner) lined up
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Access to venture capital & new markets across Europe
What you get
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Your domain, your design
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Access to our network of Challenge Owner, Business Angels, Incubators & more
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Incubation services including mentoring, training, facilitation
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Additional regional innovation ecosystem design services
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Technical and communication support
Already connecting across Europe
Entrepreneurs
Solutions
Challenges
Search our database by country or type of challenge
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It helped us enormously to get this whole thing going. It gave us the partners, the knowledge and the financing to get this project on the ground.
Hooman Nassimi
the MALEC BISTRO ZAGREB
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It helped us by creating bridges with all kind of organizations that want to develop projects and help entrepreneurs
Adolfo berraquero
bridge for billions
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We were able to hire a few more people to execute this project and it gave us a lot of exposure to be able to get a more stable customer base.
MAAIKE GERRITSEN
Fawaka Entrepreneurship School
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Social Challenges helped us to build up the first proof of concept and to connect us with the retailers.
LORENZO PASTRANA, MIGUEL CERQUEIRA, PABLO FUCIÑOS
New paper bag
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Social Innovation by definition creates value. Economic, social and environmental value. Value for people, planet and prosperity.
Mark Nicklas, EU COmMISSION,
on the Social challenges innovation platform
How do I get started?
The first step is to contact us. Fill out the form below and explain your situation, and we'll get in touch about the best Innovation Platform option for you. We're looking forward to hearing from you!
