07:45 - 08:45

Initiating the Innovation Process

• 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

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