Open Innovation Platform for University–Enterprise Collaboration: new product, business and human capital development Erasmus Project

Project Title

Open Innovation Platform for University–Enterprise Collaboration: new product, business and human capital development

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The project objective is to create for partner universities new type of platform for collaboration with enterprises. The developing platform serves as a sustainable set of value added collaborative activities with enterprises in invention and improvement of product/services. The main feature of the platform is an easy access for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to universities’ and alumni’s’ expertise in design research, prototyping, engineering, materials, technologies, and product/service development methodologies. Core of the platform is industrial design and innovation management practices that integrate universities’, SMEs and alumni’s expertise around building product/services prototypes, and follow on commercial validations. The main feature is realized by the following outcomes/outputs to develop in the frames of joint project: (1) Trainings and executive programs to improve new product/service development competences of enterprises’ staff:- Trainings in innovation management and design research instruments and methodologies: “design thinking approach”, “TRIZ”, “Rapid prototyping”, “agile instruments to manage new product development”, – Executive program “New Product/Service Development”. (2) Facilities in partner universities integrated into “Collaborative Open Innovation Labs” with the following functional zones:- Zone for co-creation teams’ work over concepts development, brainstorming, raw prototyping, and coordination meetings. – Zone for developing skills in rapid prototyping.- Zone for entrepreneurial co-creation activities in developing and validating business concepts over new product/service.(3) Management procedures and services among “Collaborative Open Innovation Labs” for multi-country co-creation activities in developing and validating concept of new product/service at other (cross-boarder) markets;(4) Dissemination of accumulated expertise and project experience among universities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 980000 Eur

Project Coordinator

POLITECNICO DI MILANO & Country: IT

Project Partners

• M.V. LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY
• VLADIMIRSKIY GOSUDARSTVENNIY UNIVERSITET
• HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
• TIANJIN UNIVERSITY
• LAPPEENRANNAN-LAHDEN TEKNILLINEN YLIOPISTO LUT
• INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE