Welcome to Inno-Quarter's webspace. Inno-Quarter is a project co-funded by the North Sea Region Programme 2014 - 2020.
Inno-Quarter provides a new way to short track innovation processes and improve the cost-effectiveness of startup support mechanisms and redirect funds towards sustainable commercialisation of more innovations.
The North Sea region (NSR) scores low in EU innovation indexes in terms of commercialisation. SMEs/entrepreneurs often lack the means to go beyond the development stage or fail soon after commercialisation. This because many companies initiate innovation processes in isolation within the company or an unsufficient network, which causes difficulties in attracting investors, finding potential customers, and acquiring raw resources to enlarge production.
Furthermore, a lot of bright ideas eventually end up in a prototype phase, however, as soon as these must be tested in a real-time environment, the means and expertise to facilitate this process are lacking, this is where Inno-Quarter comes in at the start of TRL0 till 4 or TRL5 till 8. IQ will facilitate entrepreneurs with an integral public service that is organised at existing events, most common festivals. The innovation quarters should reduce the costs of conventional start-up programmes, by reducing the time needed to validate a product/service with 2 years. IQ will provide entrepreneurs with: possibility to develop new products/services, end-user feedback for products/business models/services ready for market uptake, business support platform, enabler of product/service development.
Quadruple helix partnerships of public authorities/development agencies, knowledge institutes, private partners and the community, represented by the IQ beneficiaries, will jointly develop, test and evaluate this service in several regions to come to a validated method available for adoption throughout the NSR.
Look for more information also on www.innoquarter.eu
Latest Project News
Inno-Quarter has a new project manager
07 December 2020Dennis Sieperda is the new project manager of Inno-Quarter.
After 3 years David Zomer decided to change office and for that reason he wasn't ab…
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Finalist to participate in the Interreg 30 Years Project Slam Grand Final
22 June 2020This year Interract invite all Interreg programmes to participate in the “Interreg 30 years project slam” and celebrate the anniversary of cooperation…
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Testing on a festival with no festivals this year!?
22 June 2020The virtual edition of Oerol has started, Innofest and Inno-Quarter are there. Rob and Wilbert (from Innofest) have since settled on Terschelling, and…
Read moreCancelled festivals COVID19
24 April 2020CORONA UPDATE – COVID-19 Inno-Quarter is fully depending on the organization of festivals. Due to the uncertainty of the Corona virus, it is curren…
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Approval for Inno-Quarter project Extension
08 January 2020The Steering Committee granted extensions to the Inno-Quarter project.
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