Innovation Accelerator
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Foster real change that involves the individual and evolves the organization.
DESCRIPTION
Innovation and groundbreaking ideas are not only born inside organizations. Novel ideas require delicate care and nourishment to develop into full-fledged, mature product offerings. A corporate innovation acceleration program offers the ‘safe space’ for local startups to develop their ideas outside the official framework and business timeline of the organization, but in close proximity to it. An Innovation Accelerator program is an effective fixed term mechanism that includes mentorship, educational components, networking, and financial support with the goal to accelerate growth of the startups taking part.
HOW WE DO IT
The goal of a corporate Innovation Accelerator program is to embrace innovation in a structured way within your existing business strategy. We facilitate programs from 6 weeks to several months long, depending on the scope, the technologies, and the startups targeted. Identified ideas and teams are given support so that they can further develop their ideas and convert them to fully-fledged businesses using a framework that guides teams towards quickly prototyping their ideas and creating MVPs. Through a structured process of coaching sessions, educational bootcamps, mentorship, and service design workshops, the goal is to create products that are truly user-centered and innovative.
KEY POINTS
Form an innovation platform where new ideas and groundbreaking solutions relevant to your business can be identified and further developed.
Create an environment where the organizations’ employees can interact with innovative ideas. Help your team understand the agile startup culture and learn from it.
Shape a community for the development of entrepreneurial ideas and act as a hub between industry experts, businesses and young aspiring talent.
