InnoBuyer brings together big public and private organisations (Challengers) and innovative SMEs (Solvers) to jointly co-create innovative solutions, through a lean new model of innovation procurement.
Challengers and Solvers work together on innovative solutions to solve specific needs, and co-create a pilot in 10 months.
The EU project provides a €1.5M fund to support this new model for innovation procurement.
The InnoBuyer team facilitates and oversees the co-creation process all the way through.
Identify and describe unmet innovation needs in the organisation with the collaboration of experts and funding support (Get 10.000 EUR).
Identify solutions and providers for innovation challenge with the support of market consultation experts and funding support (Get 10.000 EUR).
Engage with an innovative SME to co-create a pilot tackling the organisation’s challenge, in a 10-month period, with funding support (Get up to 6.500 EUR).
Conceptualize and create ToR specifications for a simplified form of innovation procurement with experts’ support (Get 15.000 EUR).
Meet public & private procurers and learn more about their unmet innovation needs.
Propose innovative solutions to solve challenges proposed by big European organisations.
Develop a pilot in collaboration with a challenge proposer with coaching and funding support (65.000 EUR), in a period of 10 months.
Establish strong and long-lasting connections that enable generating new business or access to other potential customers.
Identifies challenge €10k for the Challenger
2 months
Applications closed on the 31st of March 2023 at 17:00 CET
Proposes the solution €10k for the Challenger
6 months
Applications closed on the 6nd of June 2024 at 17:00 CET
Pilot solution €6.5k for the Challenger €58.5k for the Solver
10 months
Ongoing
Procurement support €15k for the Challenger
9 months
Expected for 2024/2025
Public tender after InnoBuyer journey
InnoMatch builds on the success of InnoBuyer, continuing to support the matchmaking of SMEs with public and private buyers to accelerate the adoption of innovation solutions.
Finding first customers is one of the main barriers that is hampering access to market and commercialisation of innovative solutions developed by innovative SMEs. To mainstream the uptake of innovation procurement, InnoMatch will support the pilot testing or proof-of-concept demonstration of innovative solutions created by EIC beneficiaries for public and private buyers.
InnoMatch will support a total of 38 pilots, covering up to EUR 60,000 per pilot, and help them de-risking Innovation Procurement.
InnoMatch is a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) funded under the Horizon Europe Programme and a new component of the EIC Innovation Procurement Programme.
InnoMatch is the product of four experienced partners with vast expertise in the innovation procurement area: F6S (Ireland), TICBioMed (Spain), ICLEI (Germany) and Civitta (Estonia). Their joint forces will help buyers and suppliers thrive in the innovation procurement field, matchmaking both parties and tackling their unmet needs.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Grant Agreement 101071212.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
visibility_offDisable flashes
titleMark headings
settingsBackground Color
zoom_outZoom out
zoom_inZoom in
remove_circle_outlineDecrease font
add_circle_outlineIncrease font
spellcheckReadable font
brightness_highBright contrast
brightness_lowDark contrast
format_underlinedUnderline links
font_downloadMark links