Corporate Innovation Program
Open Innovation and Corporate Innovation program for companies belonging to the Mentor Board of ART-ER and Clust-ER.
Target: Corporate and Cluster
Immersive program in Silicon Valley aimed at companies that are part of the Mentor Board, the coaching and tutoring service offered to startups supported by ART-ER within the Accelerator "Le Serre di ART-ER" in Bologna and to Clust-ER regional representatives, which are associations created to encourage innovation in strategic production chains for Emilia-Romagna.
The program allowed participants to explore and learn about the best practices in Silicon Valley on the topics of Open Innovation and Corporate Innovation: how companies introduce innovation processes internally through collaboration with startups, accelerators and universities. During the process, meetings were organized with the heads of the Open Innovation Departments of Accenture Ventures, Silicon Foundry, Airbus Ventures, Lenovo Innovations, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, to transfer methodology and methods to strengthen those strategies.
Numbers and results:
- 1 edition in 2019
- 5 corporates + 4 clusters
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