KiNNO Services
Innovation Strategy
We offer tailored consulting to startups, scaleups, and SMEs, helping them craft strategic and actionable plans that deliver long-term success and a competitive edge, with a focus on bringing innovative solutions to the market.
- Market & Competition Analysis: We conduct detailed market and competitive assessments to uncover growth opportunities and guide strategic decisions.
- Business Models & Plans: We design unique business models and comprehensive plans to drive innovations’ commercialisation and long-term business success.
- IP Landscaping: We help businesses navigate intellectual property landscapes, ensuring that innovation remains protected and competitive.
- Mentoring & Coaching: We provide expert guidance and coaching to help startups and SMEs navigate the innovation process, empowering them to scale successfully.
- Economic Feasibility Studies: We evaluate the economic potential of innovative solutions, ensuring that they are not only viable but also sustainable in the long run.
- Cascade Funding: We support organisations in accessing cascade funding, fueling the development and scaling of their innovation projects.
Innovation Brokerage
We facilitate connections between businesses and key stakeholders, helping accelerate innovation adoption, foster growth, and drive the market integration of deep-tech innovations.
- Asset Management: We help businesses manage key assets, ensuring their innovation potential is maximized and technology transfer is streamlined.
- Funding Seeking: We identify and secure the best funding opportunities to fast-track the growth of innovation-driven projects.
- Solution Validation: We help organisations test and validate their solutions to ensure their market readiness.
- Demos, Pilots, and Proof-of-Concept Facilitation: We assist businesses in developing demos, pilots, and proofs of concepts to showcase the viability and impact of their innovative solutions.
- Networking & Matchmaking: We connect businesses with the right stakeholders and partners to build strategic collaborations that accelerate innovation.
- Soft-landing: We support businesses entering new markets by offering soft-landing activities to simplify international expansion.
- Users & Customers Discovery: We assist organisations in identifying and engaging with target users and customers, ensuring that their solutions meet market needs.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Capacity Building
We offer customized programs to upskill and reskill teams, helping organisations adopt the entrepreneurial mindset and skills needed to accelerate innovation.
- Innovation Management: We provide training to empower teams to manage and drive innovation effectively across their organisations.
- Business Analysis: We help businesses develop analytical skills to assess performance and identify growth opportunities in innovative projects.
- EU & National Innovation Funding Identification: We assist businesses in understanding how to identify and secure EU and national funding to support their innovation-driven projects.
- Open Innovation: We promote the principles of open innovation, supporting collaboration and knowledge-sharing to solve complex challenges.
- Innovation Ecosystem Building: We help stakeholders understand how to create collaborative ecosystems that enable businesses to thrive and innovate together.
- Entrepreneurship: We deliver entrepreneurial training, equipping individuals with the mindset and tools to launch and scale innovative businesses.
- Design & Operation of Innovation Support Structures: We provide programs tutoring innovation ecosystem stakeholders to design and manage innovation support systems that facilitate organisational growth and market acceptance.
Innovation Policy Studies
We conduct research and provide insights that shape policies and strategies to drive transformation within industries, aligning with Europe’s twin transition goals.
- R&I Strategies & Action Plans: We create research and innovation strategies to guide policy decisions and support industry-wide transformations.
- Policy Recommendations: We provide actionable policy advice that fosters sustainable, innovation-led growth across industries.
- Sectoral Mapping & Market Analysis: We map sectors and analyze markets to identify trends, opportunities, and challenges within innovation-related policy development.
- Innovation Development Roadmaps: We design comprehensive roadmaps that align industry goals with EU policies, driving progress and transformation.
- Qualitative Research on Sectoral Trends: We conduct in-depth research to uncover sectoral trends that inform innovation policy decisions.
Innovation Intermediation Schemes
We create and manage initiatives designed to fast-track innovation development, ensuring seamless transitions from ideation to market adaptation.
- Innovation Sandboxes: We set up controlled environments where innovative solutions can be safely tested, validated, and refined.
- Hackathons: We organize hackathons that drive creativity and inspire the development of disruptive innovations.
- Incubators: We offer incubation services to support early-stage companies in growing and bringing their innovations to the market.
- Innovation Sprints: We organize fast-paced sprints to rapidly raise funds for innovative solutions.
- Living Labs: We establish living labs as testing grounds for solutions in both urban and rural environments.
- Accelerators: We run accelerators to fast-track the scaling of innovative startups and SMEs.
- Open Innovation Bootcamps: We facilitate bootcamps that encourage open innovation, bringing diverse minds together to co-create groundbreaking solutions.
- Intrapreneurship Programs: We develop intrapreneurship initiatives that enable employees to innovate and drive change within their organisations.
Innovation Methodologies Development
We design advanced methodologies that smooth the transition from research to market, enabling organisations to quickly scale and deploy new technologies.
- Open Innovation: We develop methodologies that help businesses tap into external knowledge and foster collaborative innovation.
- Business Acceleration: We develop methodologies that fast-track the commercialisation of solutions, ensuring quicker market uptake.
- Technology Transfer: We design frameworks that facilitate the seamless transfer of research breakthroughs to the market.
- Knowledge Valorisation: We create strategies for extracting maximum value from research, ensuring that knowledge translates into economic impact.
Innovation Support Structures' Development
We design, implement, and sustain innovation ecosystems and structures that help businesses translate scientific knowledge into innovations.
- Innovation Support Structures’ Sustainability Plans: We create plans that ensure innovation support structures remain sustainable and impactful over the long term.
- Innovation Support Structures’ Design & Organisation: We design and organize innovation support structures that promote effective collaboration and growth within ecosystems.
- Innovation Ecosystem Mapping: We map out innovation ecosystems, identifying key players, gaps, and opportunities for strategic collaboration.
Innovation Projects Support
We provide comprehensive project management services, ensuring that innovation projects are executed efficiently and yield measurable results.
- Project Management: We handle end-to-end project management to ensure the smooth execution of innovation projects.
- Social Acceptance: Engaging communities, citizens and their organisations, addressing concerns, and ensuring that innovation is widely understood, trusted, and embraced.
- Exploitation & Dissemination: We support the exploitation of project results and ensure their effective dissemination to maximize impact.
- Third-Party Financing: We help secure third-party financing to ensure the sustainability of innovation projects.
