Open Innovation Call

In the recent past the Northern Netherlands have created several innovation environments and hubs. During Beyond peer review meetings it was concluded that they could become more effective as vehicles for continuous Entrepreneurial Discovery Processes.
Discussions with the Beyond EDP project partners and experts, as Dominique Foray and the EC’s Joint Research Centre, inspired SNN to design a new support instrument to foster these processes: to stimulate businesses, knowledge partners and society stay in a continuous interaction, to foster cooperation and to increase the chances for discoveries.
There was a technical reason as well to create the Open Innovation Call.
SNN felt that most support instruments within Structural Funds programmes, were too directive in advance, hampering the creativity of the actors involved.
The main novelty of the Call is that it is directive not in terms of activities or actions - for which to receive funding or not, as usually is the case with support instruments - but objectives
The logic of the call starts with a strictly defined objective. What follows is an open invitation for consortia to come up with initiatives which contribute to the objective. Crucial is that it’s up to the consortia to define the initiative, that is how to reach the objective. Nothing is defined in advance. All actions or activities which form an indispensable element of the project are eligible. This of course subject to basic rules, in line with EU Regulations.