NTN - Innovation Booster: Funding period 2021-2024
NTN - Innovation Booster" aims to provide SMEs with competitive advantages through cooperation with partners along the value chain and the integration of knowledge, skills and technologies from universities. In addition to incremental innovations, this process should also encourage more radical innovation ideas. Innosuisse is therefore calling on interested partners to run a joint campaign as a consortium to implement thematic "NTN - Innovation Booster". Applications must be submitted by February 28, 2020.
What is an NTN - Innovation Booster?
At national level, the NTN - Innovation Booster brings together teams from universities, business and society around a specific innovation theme, and stimulates the emergence and testing of concrete innovation ideas. Topics of economic interest must be approached in an innovative way: new scientific discoveries provide important impulses and can lead to the commercialization of process, product or service innovations in the foreseeable future. New applications can be found in both industry and the service sector.
What are the thematic accents?
A thematic focus is defined by the consortium for each innovation gas pedal. The term "innovation theme" can be interpreted broadly, and includes not only technological innovation themes, but also themes in the fields of "business model innovations", "innovation culture" and "innovation methods".
The main theme of each NTN - Innovation Booster is defined with the participation of the stakeholders concerned, to ensure that the theme is relevant and generates keen interest from both the universities and the partners responsible for promotion.
How does an NTN - Innovation Booster work?
At an NTN - Innovation Booster, relevant customer needs are jointly addressed, new solutions are developed and future business areas are discussed. The aim is to develop concrete, verifiable solution, product and service concepts. Innovative ideas must take into account all relevant aspects from the outset, and actively include the needs of customers and the framework conditions of development partners, if they are to be successfully launched on the market. Customer needs, feasibility and profitability must be at the heart of innovation gas pedals.
As part of this process, an NTN - Innovation Booster provides selected innovation teams with the financial resources they need to develop and evaluate cutting-edge innovation ideas. It thus promotes an agile process and continuously improves the quality of ideas. In addition, joint learning and the exchange of experience between teams are specifically encouraged, and opportunities for support in the further development of the innovation idea are highlighted.
NTN - Innovation Booster acts as a link in the innovation chain, exploiting existing synergies. They focus on the needs of innovation players, from the selection of themes to the need for additional support, outside the initiative based on innovation gas pedals.