
SmartUp Accelerator - Innovation Ecosystem to foster consumer cleantech markets in the Baltic Sea Region
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.
Highlights by mid-term:
The project organised two accelerator programmes (out of the planned three ones) supporting consumer cleantech small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups in their internationalisation. The topic for the first programme was smart homes and living, and for the second one – smart mobility. For each of the accelerator programme, one SME or start-up representing each partner country – Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Russia, Latvia, Germany and Poland, got accepted by the project partners and took part in the two-day boot camp. The selected SMEs and start-ups received support from international mentors and local partners from each involved country on market-specific insights to develop growth-hacking strategies to reach new markets around the Baltic Sea.
As a result of the first acceleration programme, one finalist of the competition – Finnish smart home start-up that offers a service that improves indoor comfort with stable heating, decided to enter the Polish market with its product and started negotiations of the pilot agreement with one of the Polish corporation.
Some of the participants of the second acceleration programme took part in Latvia StartUp Day 2019, an event uniting policymakers, start-ups and corporations. Among other things, speed dating with investors was an opportunity for them to practice new skills gained during the boot-camp and meet people from related industries.
Budgets
PARTNERS
Town: Trollhättan
Region: SÖDRA SVERIGE
Country: Sweden
Representative: Lennart Walldén
Phone: 46 520 289 327
E-mail: Lennart.wallden{at}innovatum.se
Web: www.innovatum.se
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
425.250,00
Town: Helsinki
Region: MANNER-SUOMI
Country: Finland
Representative: Satu Lähteenoja
Phone: 358 445 002 993
E-mail: satu.lahteenoja{at}demoshelsinki.fi
Web: http://www.demoshelsinki.fi/en/
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
352.240,00
Town: Varberg
Region: SÖDRA SVERIGE
Country: Sweden
Representative: Ulric Björck
Phone: 46 706 907 401
E-mail: ulric.bjorck{at}varberg.se
Web: www.alexandersoninstitutet.se
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
158.300,00
Town: Warszawa
Region: REGION CENTRALNY
Country: Poland
Representative: Magdalena Jabłońska
Phone: 48 604 474 709
E-mail: m.jablonska{at}fpt.org.pl
Web: www.mitefpoland.org
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
125.400,00
Town: OsterholzScharmbeck
Region: NIEDERSACHSEN
Country: Germany
Representative: Chris Ashe
Phone: 4 947 918 204 917
E-mail: c.ashe{at}eifi.eu
Web: www.eifi.eu
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
196.448,16
Town: Göteborg
Region: SÖDRA SVERIGE
Country: Sweden
Representative: Björn Westling
Phone: 46 708 754 863
E-mail: bjorn.westling{at}johannebergsciencepark.com
Web: www.johannebergsciencepark.com
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
312.125,00
Town: Riga
Region: LATVIJA
Country: Latvia
Representative: Matiss Neimanis
Phone: 37 167 034 414
E-mail: matiss.neimanis{at}lu.lv
Web: www.lu.lv (http://www.lu.lv/eng/)
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
143.800,00
Town: Talinn
Region: EESTI
Country: Estonia
Representative: Kairi Sulla
Phone: 3 724 800 200
E-mail: kairi.sulla{at}tehnopol.ee
Web: www.tehnopol.ee
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
174.470,50
Town: St. Petersburg
Region: Northwestern Federal District
Country: Russia
Representative: Maxim Balanev
Phone: 78 123 258 416
E-mail: maxim.balanev{at}fbd.spb.ru
Web: www.fbd.spb.ru
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
148.026,25
Town: St.Petersburg
Region: Northwestern Federal District
Country: Russia
Representative: Inga Skvortsova
Phone: 78 126 848 108
E-mail: ingaskvor{at}list.ru
Web: https://spbgorod.nethouse.ru
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
122.000,00
Town: Berlin
Region: BERLIN
Country: Germany
Representative: Chris Ashe
Phone: 4 947 918 204 917
E-mail: c.ashe{at}atenekom.eu
Web: https://atenekom.eu/
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
58.651,84
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Communication manager
Innovatum AB
Jenny Schmitz Jakobsson
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