The INVITE Project

Europe is a world-leading knowledge generator. Yet, a great deal of this knowledge often remains underexploited and does not make it to the market. This market failure, coined as the European Paradox over 20 years ago, still persists and implies that many R&I investments do not turn into economic and societal benefits.

Open innovation has the potential to address this persisting paradox. INVITE taps into this potential and introduces an innovative digital platform, the Open Innovation 2.0 Lab (OI2LAB), to address some well-known challenges of the European R&I landscape.

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About OI2 Lab

The OI2Lab provides a suite of demand-driven services and digital tools to stimulate open innovation across Europe and empower businesses to tap into its potential in order to collaborate, innovate and grow. Its objectives are to:

STIMULATE & FACILITATE knowledge flows and co-creation of value across innovation systems

TRAIN & EMPOWER businesses with the skills to drive value out of Europe’s knowledge-base

CATALYSE & INCREASE private investments in promising open innovation projects

OI2Lab Services

Smart Matchmaking: Find suitable partners and opportunities for innovation across different open innovation platforms

Open Innovation Management: Set-up and manage your innovation-driven collaborations across borders

Links to Finance: Get your open innovation project off the ground with suitable funding solutions

OI2Lab arsenal of digital tools

Opportunities: Access innovation opportunities from leading knowledge networks all in one place

E-Learning Environment: Learn more about how you can use and get value our of open innovation

Collaboration Space: Find, connect and collaborate with your partners across long distances

Join us at the OI2Lab and make the most out of our services and tools

Participate in OI2Lab's running open calls and competitions

OI2Lab currently has open calls and competitions running. Apply now to:

Win a €5000 innovation voucher to kick start your own open innovation project addressing challenges set by global businesses
Get support from OI2 Lab innovation advisors to identify, connect and collaborate with suitable partners across borders
Access coaching and tools that can help you improve your investment readiness along with your pitching technique

Welcome to INVITE

Project News

Invite Replication & Scale-up Guide

The INVITE Replication & Scale-up Guide represents a framework, designed to give guidelines in the replication of Open Innovation Collaboration projects to improve or enhance innovation co-operation, support innovators in a network, and create an added value to innovative projects.

Case study showcase webinar

Innovation and Internationalization funding opportunities for European SMEs

Join us to discover funding and networking opportunities for European SMEs looking to innovate and promote their business internationally.

Winners of OI2LAB Second Competition

We have the pleasure to announce that 53 innovation teams have applied to the Second round of the competition “Improve your Investment Readiness”.

7 innovative companies from Italy, Germany and UK and will be rewarded with short professional video on their innovation, Business plan review or pitching coaching, in order to better engage with private investors.

The Winners are:

OI2LAB 2nd Open Call Winners

We are glad to announce that our open call for " Boosting business growth through open innovation " closed on December 2nd 2019.

We received a total of 67 eligible proposals for this call and now, with the evaluation and selection process completed, we will be awarding a total amount of 180.000 EUR to 36 promising proposals.

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