Reports and Studies about Open Innovation

This document is a selection of Open Innovation related calls, offering a wide range of opportunities to apply Open Innovation 2.0 methodology in project proposals.

The last phase of Horizon 2020, the EU's Research and Innovation programme, has been launched. Roughly EUR 6 billion out of the overall budget of EUR 30 billion will be spent on research and innovations in the ICT sector. ICT is present in many of the Horizon 2020 areas. This guide is designed to help potential proposers find ICT-related topics across the different parts of H2020 in work programme 2018-20.

As part of the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020 the EU Research and Innovation Programme, a public stakeholder consultation was launched on 20 October 2016 and closed on 15 January 2017. The results of around 3500 responses and about 300 position papers were presented at an event organised in cooperation with the European Economic and Social Committee on 28 April.

The concept of open innovation (OI) has become a very popular topic during the last decade, with more and more small firms embracing OI practices to gain competitive advantage. Yet, open innovation in small enterprises has received few attention in the research.

The aim of this study is to identify the potential of frugal innovation for Europe. In particular, it explores how Europe’s competences in the area of industrial and key enabling technologies could be leveraged in ‘frugal’ solutions

The survey examines ways of future collaboration between higher education institutions and external organizations.

5G, Internet of Things, Cloud and Big Data were the main topics of the EU-Japan ICT Research and Innovation Symposium. During the two days of the event, European Commission and Japanese officials together with ICT experts involved in research and innovation projects funded by European and Japanese authorities had the opportunity to exchange views on the topics and establish direct scientific links between these two regions of the world.

This annual event of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) included 4 days of open exchange, networking, workshops, inspirational speeches and visits.