SmartUp Accelerator - Innovation Ecosystem to foster consumer cleantech markets in the Baltic Sea Region

October 2017 -
September 2020
Policy area:
Innovation
1. Innovation 1.3 Non-tech innovation

SmartUp Accelerator

There is a growing interest in consumer clean technology, which is about reducing the environmental burden of consumption and is related to resource scarcity, rising energy and fuel costs, digitalisation and automatisation. The project helps exploit arising business opportunities in consumer clean technology for small and medium sized enterprises, start-ups and intermediaries in the Baltic Sea region by shaping models for networking, partnerships and cultural cooperation.

Summary

Consumer cleantech

Cleantech traditionally springs from innovations in the industry sector. Recently, cleantech start-ups also began to emerge in the consumer market. The growth logic of cleantech companies is changing: more and more companies start addressing the challenges and opportunities posed by resource scarcity, rising energy and fuel costs, digitalisation, automatisation and user-centred design. This is called consumer cleantech.

Strengthening innovation capacity

The project addresses innovation actors in order to strengthen their innovation capacity in consumer cleantech: to help them identify brilliant ideas, and foster teams committed to creating new businesses and reducing the environmental burden of consumption. This is done by transnational training programmes and supporting activities, such as testbeds.

The project triggers networking and cooperation, training programmes for intermediaries, small and medium sized enterprises and start-ups. It creates strategic and operational partnerships between organisations and stakeholders, and strengthens knowledge and awareness of consumer cleantech within the innovation and investor scene. All this is being gathered within a model called SmartUp Accelerator.

The SmartUp Accelerator

The SmartUp Accelerator project launches a transnational consumer cleantech innovation ecosystem driving the Baltic Sea region’s level strategic and operative partnerships and new commercialised innovations. This in turn shall create success stories on the EU and global consumer cleantech markets, leading to increased prosperity, well-being and sustainability around the Baltic Sea region.

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Budgets

Total
€ 2.22
million
Erdf
€ 1.50
million
Eni + Russia
€ 0.23
million
Norway
€ 0.00
million

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CONTACTS

Project manager

Innovatum AB

Lennart Walldén

+46520289327

Legal representative

Innovatum AB

Martin Wänblom

+46520289308

Financial manager

Innovatum AB

Helena Olausson

+46 520 289 321

Communication manager

Demos Helsinki

Tyyra Linko

+358 40 729 7952