PROJECT

Vision

To make the Center Region a national and international benchmark in the creation of sustainable products, services and technologies based on R&D+I.

Mission

To strengthen the Innovation Ecosystem of the Central Region, promoting network collaboration and regional sustainability.

Strategic and Operational Objectives

• To expand and disseminate scientific and technological knowledge in the Central Region;
• Stimulate entrepreneurial and innovative attitudes, promoting the acceptance of risk;
• Increase the technological intensity of companies, focusing on the green and digital transition;
• Create a culture of knowledge transfer that generates innovation and qualified employment;
• Improve the innovation performance of the Central Region in the EU's Regional Innovation Scoreboard;
• Strengthen the Central Region's innovation network to value and transfer knowledge to the economy;
• Create and strengthen TTOs (Technology Transfer Offices), intensifying synergies between them;
• Valuing patents through licensing, sales and new ventures;
• Implement the Patent Box methodology in the Central Region;
• Strengthen the technical teams of the INOVC+ Ecosystem, increasing their capacity;
• Benchmarking with national and international collaborative networks;
• Identify and disseminate R&D results with commercial potential;
• Stimulate innovative collaborative projects with a focus on technology transfer;
• Raise awareness of innovation and promote joint R&D+I projects;
• Support the protection of intellectual property and the development of proofs of concept;
• Encourage the creation of spin-offs, start-ups and innovative companies in strategic sectors;
• Develop innovative tools to facilitate knowledge transfer;
• Create dissemination campaigns, incorporating good practices from Israel's innovation system;
• Carry out ex-ante and ex-post evaluations, focusing on the impact of INOVC+.

• RESEARCHERS
• STUDENTS
• ENTREPRENEURS with seed projects and technology-based spin-offs and/or R&D.
• COMPANIES, in particular:
  SMEs with innovation needs.
  SMEs in mature sectors that need to innovate and diversify.
  Young innovative and/or technology-based companies.
• INTERMEDIATE ORGANIZATIONS, such as technology and R&D centers, agents and support bodies for the valorization and transfer of R&D to companies, and companies specializing in innovation support.
• STAKEHOLDERS, namely:
  Local authorities, municipal associations, and other public bodies.
  Policymakers at local, regional, national and European level.
  Media, journalists and opinion-makers.
• Economic and social agents, including business associations, clusters and other business development agents.
• NGOs, IPSS and private institutions of public interest.
• Society in general.

BOOSTING THE CENTRAL REGION'S INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM
This activity includes a series of actions and initiatives aimed at boosting, strengthening and reinforcing the INOVC+ regional innovation ecosystem, as a way of increasing and improving its capacity and effectiveness as a privileged instrument for valuing and transferring knowledge and technology to the regional economy.

TECHNOLOGY DETECTION AND DISSEMINATION ACTIONS
This activity brings together the actions and initiatives planned at an early stage in the process of involving the scientific community in the innovation pipeline. It essentially involves initial stimulus actions and the involvement of researchers, teachers, students and other members of the academic-scientific community, with or without R&D results and/or technologies with commercial potential, inviting them in an inclusive manner to participate in the INOVC+ project.

INTERACTION WITH COMPANIES
Various interaction initiatives will be carried out with companies, with a view to identifying new R&D+I needs and stimulating the development of R&D+I projects from the INOVC+ regional innovation ecosystem in cooperation with companies.

VALORIZATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION
It is planned to carry out a wide range of initiatives to support the valorization and commercialization of R&D+I results. The various actions planned provide tools to support and stimulate the various sequential phases of support for the valorization and transfer of R&D+I projects, from their initial phase to mature projects seeking, for example, national and/or international commercial opportunities.

STRUCTURING AND MANAGING THE INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM
The structuring and management of the INOVC+ ECOSSYSTEM includes a set of cross-cutting initiatives, including processes for structuring, evaluating and readjusting the implementation of the INOVC+ Program, including intra and inter ECOSSYSTEM INOVC+ benchmarking actions for reciprocal learning of good practices and mechanisms for monitoring the dynamics generated, as well as constant monitoring of the strategies adopted and success indicators, and the preparation of the respective implementation reports.