Project description
How to scale up a start-up
The entrepreneurial ecosystem is evolving rapidly, driven by high-growth firms that have the potential to bring solutions to the market, create jobs and increase productivity. Support to overcome the daily hurdles is important to ensure start-ups are able to scale up. In this context, the EU-funded Scale-ups Ready project will develop advanced assessment services for scale-ups and offer support tailored to their needs. Specifically, it will support innovation agencies to exchange knowledge, expertise, good practices on advanced methodologies, tools for scale-ups assessment and customised support services. Information about the best approaches and the tools will be outlined in a Design Options Paper, which will be shared with other EU innovation agencies and networks.
Objective
Following international evidence that shows that a small number of high-growth firms are vital for job growth and overall economic growth, and the European Commission's Start-up and Scale-up Initiative, Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) launched in 2017 a new flagship service to support scale-ups. However, innovation agency services are in too many occasions standardised and do not take into account the rapid evolving entrepreneurial ecosystem and the advanced needs of scale-ups. Innovation agencies across Europe need to be ready today to deliver advanced assessment services to scale-ups and be able to offer support tailored to their needs.
The objective of Scale-ups Ready is to enable the participating innovation agencies to exchange knowledge, know-how, and good practices on advanced methodologies and tools for scale-ups assessment (including SMEs with high-growth potential) and customised support services, in order to develop better approaches for client intake and support of scale-ups.
Based on the Twinning+ methodology, the project aims to cover peer-learning and peer-review activities for three kinds of services through specific assessment instruments that when combined offer in-depth analysis of the needs of scale-ups, in order to provide them with tailored support:
1) An advanced IP valuation scheme, IPscore® 2.2 (FORTH),
2) An advanced business innovation roadmap tool, smE-MPOWER ‘Business innovation roadmap tool’ (LIC),
3) An advanced Innovation Health Check assessment tool (FUNDECYT-PCTEX).
This peer-learning and peer-review scheme has been developed based on each partner's identified competences and gaps in advanced services for scale-ups. The result will bring in new added-value service offerings to participating organisations, will lead to better approaches and the adaptation of tools to the specific national/regional contexts. The Design Options Paper will be shared with other EU innovation agencies and networks, and with national and EU policy-makers.
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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H2020-EU.2.3.2.2. - Enhancing the innovation capacity of SMEs
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CSA - Coordination and support action
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-INNOSUP-2018-2020
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