STARTUP³
H2020 ICT-33-2019
Grant agreement no. 871709
Supporting deep-tech based innovative market players to uptake opportunities, upgrade performance and upscale their business
In General
For the EU deep-tech startup scene to grow sustainably and achieve its potential impact, access to real market problems and test beds is required. Driven by real market needs, or as STARTUP³ defines it, Key Performance Areas, the project builds and facilitates an open and collaborative ecosystem for high impact deep-tech innovators and corporates and acts as a cross-border/sectoral market-maker. The project aims to generate, take up, ensure market penetration and further capitalize on the growth and impact potential of profound research by providing access to dynamic and 3-phase across the board growth support framework UPTAKE-UPGRADE-UPSCALE. The catalysation is aimed at creating synergies across the Europe, networking, raising understanding of the benefits of deep-tech technology and stimulating their uptake - Cluster Missions and Clusters-Corporate Assembly. The STARTUP³ consortium is a fusion between geographically scattered Clusters (POLE SCS, LITC, ITC) international innovation and Tech-transfer specialists (INO and EKT), SME focused on upscaling research and technology (AGENSO), startup studio (HOLA-UP).
More Information
In order to navigate investment risks and opportunities in the high-risk, high-reward deep-tech sector, European SMEs need simultaneous access to market and technical & industrial expertise and capability unique to deep-tech commercialization. STARTUP³ aims to offer exactly this type of access to startups/ SMEs by harnessing the potential of ‘corporate open innovation’ and through a systemic approach geared towards viable commercialization of high-potential deep-tech products and services. In our overall concept, the following main dimensions play a major role: a) UPTAKE is about finding and engaging innovation, i.e. high-potential startups/ SMEs from deep-tech fields, b) UPGRADE here we unveil a dedicated growth support framework called ‘Ideation2Market’ and c) UPSCALE is designed to bring growth-stage startups/ SMEs right into the VCs/ CVCs community to showcase/ pilot their products, get feedback and gain access to capital, new customers and future partners. Finally, STARTUP³ will allow innovative deep-tech startups and scaleups to explore different incentives, tools/ platforms and resources along its intensive growth support program. The underlying aim is to facilitate deeper understanding of the latest trends and dynamics behind deep-tech commercialization, and how startups and corporates can (soft) land successful business partnerships.
AGENSO Contribution
AGENSO is WP2 Ideation to Market Evaluation & Monitoring Module Leader, responsible for setting up an appropriate module for evaluation and monitoring of future deep technologies based on 360° Strengths and Weaknesses Radar by HOLA-UP in order to identify and specify technical/ business services to be delivered to STARTUP³ innovators, to set up technical knowledge & resources repository to accelerate deep tech innovations across various verticals, to prepare / organize all technical/ business support services and finally to improve services offered based on insights collected in WP3 (D3.4); this is critical to ensure the sustainability of STARTUP³ post-project.
STARTUP³ Basics
Help deep-tech Startups
to grow sustainably and achieve their potential impactBridge deep tech innovators and top-tier corporates
for synergy, industry guidance/ support, funding, and the likes (STARTUP³ Innovation Hub)Offers unique possibilities
as technology support, community and go-to-market benefitsFacilitate deeper understanding
of the latest trends and dynamics behind deep-tech commercializationProject Funding
- Starting date : 01/01/2020
- Duration : 24 Months
- Status : Running
- AGENSO participation type: Direct Beneficiary
- This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 871709
Innovative Participants
Discovery Missions
Events
Open Call
AGENSO Main Tasks
Development of the Ideation to Market Evaluation & Monitoring Module of the StartUp³ platform.
Provision of Technical and Business Support & Monitoring to innovative startup companies.
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