Innosuisse NTN - Innovation booster (funding period: 2021 – 2024)

The NTNs (Innosuisse supported National Thematic Networks) are nationwide networks specialising in a specific innovative topic which give you access to infrastructure and research as well as potential industry partners. They provide opportunities to network and exchange ideas with other representatives from industry and research in your field of innovation, creating the ideal conditions for you to forge ahead with your development and enhance the innovative strength of your business or research activity in a lasting way.

The NTN – Innovation Boosters bring together interested teams from universities, business and society at national level around a defined innovation theme and stimulate the emergence and testing of concrete innovation ideas. Themes of economic relevance are to be addressed in an innovative manner: new scientific findings provide important momentum and may lead to the launch of process, product or service innovations in the foreseeable future. The novel applications can impact both industry and the services sector.

Within the framework of an NTN – Innovation Booster, relevant customer needs are addressed together, new approaches to solutions are developed and future business areas are discussed. The aim is to develop concrete, verifiable solution, product and service concepts. Innovation ideas should consider all important aspects from the outset and actively include both the customers’ needs and the framework conditions of the implementation partners to ensure a successful market launch right from the onset. Customers’ needs, feasibility and profitability should be the focus of the NTN – Innovation Booster.

As part of this process, the NTN – Innovation Booster provides direct funding to selected innovation teams for the development and testing of innovation ideas. This promotes an agile process and continuously improves the quality of ideas. In addition, collaborative learning and the exchange of experiences between the teams is specifically targeted and potential forms of support for the subsequent development of the innovation idea are demonstrated.

Information on future NTN – Innovation Boostersfunding opportunities will be release toward the end 2020 (information will be published here: https://www.innosuisse.ch/inno/en/home/be-connected/ntn.html)

More information on the past NTN – Innovation Boosterscall that closed on Feb 2020 can be found here (results will be released in August): https://www.innosuisse.ch/inno/en/home/be-connected/ntn/ntn-innovation-booster.html

Contact:

• Innosuisse Knowledge and Technology Transfer:
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  • Tel. +41 58 461 38 81
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More information on National Thematic Networks:https://www.innosuisse.ch/inno/en/home/be-connected/ntn.html