Collaborative Innovation

Are you an academic, business, or researcher with a project or innovative idea you’d like to explore and add to your strategic pipeline?

What is it?

Leveraging our experience of building impactful partnerships and drawing on your insights, experience and expertise, these pilot projects aim to initiate engagement to deliver original proposals. The projects will test the market and deliver tangible benefits to businesses, academics, and researchers across the island of Ireland. They will increase strategic and engaged innovation activity and inform future programme development and delivery through a co-creation approach.

Collaborative Innovation Support

The overarching aim is to create demonstrable impact for participants, either individually or in partnership - through collaborative, innovative approaches that enhance capacity, generate economic benefit, and contribute to shared learning. Specific areas of focus for potential pilot proposals include but aren’t limited to:

Innovation skills development - design thinking, prototyping, or digital transformation for the benefit of SME’s on the island.

Innovation leadership skills development – bespoke for CEO’s, MD’s or others.

Proposals which initiate and facilitate mutually beneficial partnership / collaboration focused on innovation activities in different forms – this may include, business to business, researcher to business, academic to academic, academic to business or a group.

Sustainability – practical, SME pitched.

Technology adoption for the benefit of increasing competitiveness and efficiency.

Data access, literacy and utilisation activities.

Knowledge Transfer Mechanisms: Tools, platforms, or programs to help translate findings into market-ready innovations.

Who is AI for SMEs for?

Cross-border innovation pilot designed for 10 construction-sector SMEs. The programme is designed to help companies embed AI-solutions into their businesses in a strategic, ethical, and scalable way.