• Starting with the end at heart • Identify real challenges • Set out the innovation resources • Group exercise
08:45 - 09:45
Sustaining the Building Process
• The Upscaling stage • The Expansion stage • Group exercise
09:45 - 10:00
Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:00
Define Business Challenges and Organise the appropriate Innovation Resources
• The Renewal stage • The Merge & Acquisition stage • Group exercise
11:00 - 12:30
The New funding Instruments – Trends and enablers
• The Global Innovation Fund • The Centralised EU Fundings: Horizon Europe, EU Covid-19 funding • The Decentralised EU Funding: Idek funding opportunities • Case Studies
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00
Practical session: Designing and deploying successful proposals
Practical Group Exercise: to help participants to understand the critical success factors for applying for support in the new National, EU and Global Funding instruments for Innovation.
15:00 - 15:15
Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:15
Develop and Present Action Plans Conclusions and Feedback
Develop and Present Action Plans
Day 2
07:45 - 08:45
Introductions and Objectives of the seminar
08:45 - 09:45
What do we really mean when we talk about "innovation"?
• Where does innovation come from? • Can everybody be an innovator? • Why is it not enough to have the most gifted creative employees? • Case study
09:45 - 10:00
Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:00
The art of Defining Proactive and Agile Strategy
• Strategy planning skills versus dealing with the unexpected • Prepare your company for the next stage of its lifetime • Group exercise
11:00 - 12:30
Identifying your Pluses and Minuses
• What your company’s armoury, opportunities and talents? • What are your companies’ threads and weaknesses? • Group exercise
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00
What do you need to create an innovation mindset?
• Trust your employees • Given them time • Give them physical (or digital) space • Create teams • Secure a dual operating system • Support minimal valuable products • Involve and co-create • Group exercise
15:00 - 15:15
Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:15
No big-bang innovation company program has ever worked!
• Learning from international experience of successful businesses • Contrast between short-term, medium-term and long-term strategies • Group Exercises