SPARK Scan Plan Act Revolutionary Kit

SPARK is born thanks to a peer-learning action funded under Horizon 2020 dimostrating that exchange of experience and collective learning have a real enabling potential to improve capacities. It’s a new way to approach the dialogue between research and companies, enlarging the number and categories of actors involved, integrating specific competencies of Business Idea development (based on the BMC) as well as a coaching function. Actually, innovation and research results coming out from research projects developed in academies are still far from becoming tangible products. Usually researchers don’t have an extended vision taking into account market request. SPARK started from industrial research projects, financed by Regional Authority, to bring them closer to the needs of the market, giving researchers the opportunity to understand the company needs and contribute to their competitive growth. SPARK puts at the same table researchers, innovation centres, associations, public and private authority, business experts, companies, potentially interested to the product, providing useful ideas so that the result of the research is actually useful to companies. It creates a context where researchers can measure real feasibility of research activities with a marketable perspective. Five editions were organized as working tables, corresponding to regional S3 regional: Agrifood, Culture and creative industries, Mechatronics, Building and Constructions, Health & Wellbeing industries.