Supercluster Open Innovation Map

How can an innovation cluster facilitate open innovation amongst its members? Using the Open Innovation Map, innovation clusters can now quickly set up a strategy, structure, and process for open innovation at the cluster level.

Supercluster Open Innovation Map

How can an innovation cluster facilitate open innovation amongst its members? Using the Open Innovation Map, innovation clusters can now quickly set up a strategy, structure, and process for open innovation at the cluster level.

Strategic Innovation Canvas

Main Outcomes

Make Open Innovation Happen

Use the Map to build an infrastructure, a process, and a methodology for making open innovation happen at your cluster level. Let your members post their challenges. Self-assess on Industry Challenge vs. Company issue, and Urgent Issue vs. Long-Term Challenge.

Connect “Problems” & “Solution”

Have your corporate members (often defined as the Problem Owners) input their “Problems” into the platform. Open the platform to startups, scale-ups, partners, academia, and researchers. Let the crowd help define the solutions.

Create Real Value for Members

Some innovation clusters struggle to create value for their members. Develop a future-fit open innovation strategy, and let members see how powerful open innovation can be at the cluster level.

Use Case: Norwegian Innovation Cluster

A Norwegian innovation cluster was searching for new, novel ways to improve open innovation in practice. With 150+ members and a great international network, the cluster had long talked about open innovation but struggled with hands-on solutions for implementation. 

Working closely with the team at Strategy Tools, they helped design a working method and tool to actually focus on the needs of the problem owners, and then build the rest of the methodology around this.

Problem It Solves

✓ How can we create a culture of open innovation in our cluster

✓ How can we facilitate more open innovation in the cluster

✓ How can we connect the problems of the big companies with the solutions and innovations coming from the smaller startups and scale-ups

✓ How can we run open innovation projects in the cloud

Who Is It For?

✓ Cluster CEO’s

✓ Cluster Managers

✓ Cluster Boards

✓ Economic Development Agencies

✓ National Cluster Leadership

✓ National Innovation Agencies

✓ National Innovation Centers

✓ National Startup Hubs

✓ National Transformation Projects

✓ Ministries of Trade, Innovation, Growth

✓ Political Leadership

✓ Supercluster experts

✓ Consultants

✓ Ecosystem builders

✓ Business Schools

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