
Improved Results in Innovation Support - transnational exchange and joint development between Innovation Infrastructure Organisations
IRIS
Business incubator organisations are crucial supporters for entrepreneurs, start-ups and small and medium sized enterprises that drive economic growth and create jobs. In the project, incubators from all countries around the Baltic Sea work together to improve and strengthen their management and support capacity, i.e. to jointly nurture new skills, help create new companies, and to support in opening up new markets.
Summary
Relevance – what to achieve?
Incubators are organisations to boost innovation and entrepreneurship. The IRIS project strengthens management and support capacity of incubators in the Baltic Sea region in order to enhance the incubator performance, which leads to more surviving start-up companies and growing businesses. In this way, IRIS contributes to the development of the Baltic Sea region as a dynamic, innovative and business driven region.
Content – how to do it?
The existing incubator support instruments, which are shared and transferred among partners, are complemented by new instruments - developed and tested within the partnership. Additionally, guidelines of useful support instruments are made available outside the partnership. A “peer review”, defined as evaluation of work by professionals of similar competence, is used to enhance quality and improve performance of all IRIS project partners. Based on the conclusions from the peer reviews, a roadmap shall be offered to other organisations and policy makers in order to improve regional innovation systems. IRIS also supports the flagship project BSR Stars in its ambitions to develop a collaboration platform for incubators.
Partnership – who will do it?
The partnership comprises 14 incubator organisations from all countries of the Baltic rim, including Norwegian and Russian partners. The Nordic Council of Ministers is an Associated Partner to IRIS.
Highlights by mid-term:
Joint teams of IRIS partners have run on site peer reviews (evaluation of work by professionals of similar competence) for all 13 incubators involved in the project. The purpose of reviews was to improve quality and management performance by providing them with targeted recommendations for further development, so-called management improvement plans. Although the peer review method has not previously been used in a transnational context across the Baltic Sea region, it has proven to be robust and valuable, regardless of differences in structures, organisation, mission, stakeholders and ownership.
The IRIS workshop results dedicated to “High quality deal-flow to incubators”, “Coaching for growth and sustainability” and “Successful management in start-ups and SME’s” have enabled respective incubators to transform the discussed topics into offered market services.
Budgets
PARTNERS
Town: Borlänge
Region: NORRA SVERIGE
Country: Sweden
Representative: Erika Hinz
Phone: 46 705 577 767
E-mail: erika.hinz{at}dalarnasciencepark.se
Web: www.dalarnasciencepark.se
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
494.846,40
Town: Turku
Region: MANNER-SUOMI
Country: Finland
Representative: Erik Lehtonen
Phone: 358 405 460 563
E-mail: erik.lehtonen{at}turkusciencepark.com
Web: www.turkusciencepark.com
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
205.085,60
Town: Tallinn
Region: EESTI
Country: Estonia
Representative: Martin Gorosko
Phone: 3 724 800 200
E-mail: martin.gorosko{at}tehnopol.ee
Web: www.tehnopol.ee
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
133.730,40
Town: Riga
Region: LATVIJA
Country: Latvia
Representative: Janis Stabulnieks
Phone: 37 167 557 919
E-mail: ltc{at}latnet.lv
Web: www.innovation.lv/ltc
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
126.132,80
Town: Ventspils
Region: LATVIJA
Country: Latvia
Representative: Natalija Nudga
Phone: 37 163 664 934
E-mail: natalija.nudga{at}vatp.lv
Web: www.vatp.lv
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
131.207,20
Town: Kaunas
Region: LIETUVA
Country: Lithuania
Representative: Vygintas Grinis
Phone: 37 037 300 808
E-mail: vygintas.grinis{at}kaunomtp.lt
Web: www.kaunomtp.lt
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
131.441,60
Town: Vilnius
Region: LIETUVA
Country: Lithuania
Representative: Sander van der Molen
Phone: 37 061 359 730
E-mail: sander.vandermolen{at}civitta.lt
Web: www.startupdivision.eu
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
199.399,20
Town: Gdansk
Region: REGION PÓŁNOCNY
Country: Poland
Representative: Lucyna Formela
Phone: 48 587 316 580
E-mail: l.formela{at}inkubatorstarter.pl
Web: www.inkubatorstarter.pl
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
141.130,40
Town: Rzeszów
Region: REGION WSCHODNI
Country: Poland
Representative: Marek Duda
Phone: 48 178 676 215
E-mail: mduda{at}rarr.rzeszow.pl
Web: www.rarr.rzeszow.pl
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
132.206,40
Town: Hamburg
Region: HAMBURG
Country: Germany
Representative: Katharina Kull
Phone: 494 089 985 342
E-mail: katharina.kull{at}desy.de
Web: www.desy.de
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
163.850,40
Town: Greifswald
Region: MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN
Country: Germany
Representative: Alexander Schwock
Phone: 493 834 550 102
E-mail: schwock{at}witeno.de
Web: www.witeno.de
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
196.567,20
Town: Aarhus
Region: DANMARK
Country: Denmark
Representative: Peter Ekmann
Phone: 4 570 220 076
E-mail: pe{at}vhmidtjylland.dk
Web: www.vhmidtjylland.dk
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
70.910,00
Town: Kaliningrad
Region: Northwestern Federal District
Country: Russia
Representative: Yulia Kandalova
Phone: 74 012 777 155
E-mail: fond{at}inok.ru
Web: www.fkt-sme.ru
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
184.777,00
Town: Aarhus
Region: DANMARK
Country: Denmark
Representative: Peter Ekmann
Phone: 4 570 220 078
E-mail: pe{at}erhvervshusmidtjylland.dk
Web: https://erhvervshusmidtjylland.dk
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
144.089,20
CONTACTS
Legal representative
Dalarna Science Park
Angelica Ekholm
+46 70209 82 17
Communication manager
Dalarna Science Park
Patricia Eresjö
+46 706270082