Incubating for Public Innovation

Purpose and goal

The purpose was to discuss and seek joint support for a project with the overall aim to: - Further develop the infrastructure for growth-generating development support to public entrepreneurship by bringing together various project partners and create a new component of the innovation architecture where public innovation projects are incubated. -Define challenges and initiate new ideas for projects that can be incubated. -Develop the module ´Teaching Practice Innovation´ as a way of including students in innovation projects. Aims and objectives are met - produced B application.

Results and expected effects

The outcome of the project is the detailed project plan / B application and an anchoring of the project in the joint implementation structure as well as in each partner organization. The detailed project plan includes a component on how to systematically work to identify and define societal challenges and incubating them together with industry. It also includes a module for how students should be able to co-create in innovation projects. The component and the module will be an important new addition to the innovation ecosystem.

Approach and implementation

We have worked iteratively to explore how an incubator component should be organized for the cross public innovation area based in HKRs´ educations; - health & care - teacher training - gastronomy training - water management. Many people with diverse skills from all the partner organizations have participated and contributed to the development through workshop and dialogue sessions. Krinova has condensed everyone´s input by holding the pen and writing of B application. HKR, MAH and BTHs´ strategic needs of the project has set the main agenda of the B project.