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Sooner or later, every start-up faces the challenge of developing a business plan. This blog article explains what companies should pay attention to during a business planning process.

What is a Business Plan and why is it needed?

Most investors are being contacted by an endless amount of companies every day. Start-ups have a hard time figuring out how to stand out among their competitors. A promising strategy to become recognized is to address investors in a professional video. This blog article emphasizes how this is done and what has to be taken into consideration. 

Showing why an investment is worth it 

COVID – 19 has been a tremendous experience for most of us, with great implications in our every day-life, including the way we used to do business. Nevertheless, COVID- 19 became an enabler to substitute and bridge the physical collaboration gap with novel ICT services.

Open Innovation (OI) is a process that in the information age requires a mindset focused toward innovation that runs counter to the secrecy and silo mentality of traditional corporate research labs. In this vein one of the guiding ideas behind the OI2Lab is to encourage cross border partnering.

With the successful launch of the latest challenge call OI2lab is again pushing companies to think beyond their own borders.

OI2LAB has started this year with a particularly rich offers for its users: January 2020 is not only the month in which we will unveil the winners of our 2nd Open Call ,  but it is also when we officially launch our revamped gamification component.

2019 is about to end very soon, and many of us are in scramble, if not panic, mode to wrap up all our current projects, to tie up loose ends, and to start reflect on this year’s achievements. But it is also the time to prepare ourselves for a period of joy and quality time together with our family and close friends. Christmas shopping, wrapping and unwrapping presents are most likely the very last urgent tasks to finalize before the Christmas day.

Europe is a leading generator of knowledge and ideas, nevertheless many of these do not make it to the market. OI2Lab is designed to foster the adoption of Open Innovation processes within SMEs in Europe, by bringing all the relevant actors together in one platform, a single European Open Innovation Marketplace. 

In Europe, September means a ‘fresh’ start. The new academic year kicks off, struggling businesses scramble and re-focus their energy to achieve their preset goals, while more successful organizations see it as a moment to invest in innovative ideas to grow their business.

For the OI2LAB, September is also an opportunity for a new start. A new start materialized with a new open call, with new opportunities for our continuously growing network of SME’s, startups and entrepreneurs.

Last December, in the prospect of the official launch of the OI2Lab platform, we were looking for our first project to be published on the platform.