Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) This post is the first in a series of guides to help our readers better prepare for their EIC grant proposals. You can check this series of posts here or ask us for an evaluation here. Many people do not know how to properly do a SWOT… Continue reading How to do a good SWOT Analysis as part of your EIC Proposal
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) Are you looking for support to step up your innovation game? Share your input with the EIC and help us shape new partnerships in the business acceleration services programme! Less than a year after its official launch, the European Innovation Council’s (EIC) unique approach to identifying… Continue reading Business Acceleration Services Programme: Ecosystem Partnership and Co-investment Support
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) This article presents the EIC Accelerator’s eligibility criteria used as cut-off point to receive funding requests from companies. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent 99% of all businesses in the European Union. They are the driving disruptive mechanism for innovative solutions and a digital sustainable economy. SMEs… Continue reading EIC Accelerator’s eligibility criteria for start-ups and SMEs
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) Every project is unique on its weaknesses and strengths. This article gives six tips for writing a successful grant proposal, in particular for submission to the European Innovation Council (EIC). The EIC Accelerator is one of the most competitive and advantageous funding programmes now available. All… Continue reading The secret sauce to writing a successful grant proposal: 6 tips to achieve the European Innovation Council excellence
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) Funding opportunies with EIC Accelerator provide a great source of support for innovative European companies. The EIC Accelerator is a pilot project under the European Innovation Council. It aims to drive growth by funding risky, promising startups and small firms. It offers funding to support innovators, entrepreneurs,… Continue reading Funding Opportunies with EIC Accelerator
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) Individual Evaluation Report or IER is the model on which the evaluation of the individual proposal dedicated to the EIC Accelerator is based. Basically, the European Innovation Council has prepared an evaluation grid based on 5 main applications: Operational Capacity, Sub-contracting, Technical Readiness Level (TRL), Use of… Continue reading Individual Evaluation Report (IER) to assess the EIC Proposal
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) The importance of value proposition canvas is that it helps companies position innovations around customer values and needs. Developed by Osterwalder, it ensures fit between products and markets. It examines relationships between segments and propositions in the Business Model Canvas. The canvas helps assess fit between propositions… Continue reading Importance of Value Proposition Canvas
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) Why we decide we are an innovation advisory business seeking to provide innovative startup advice at cost and align on success THE CORPORATE INVESTMENT TIMES MAY 2020 | WORLD‘S TOP NEXTGEN INVESTMENT MAGAZINE USHERING THE NEXTGEN www.CORPORATEINVESTMENTTIMES.com AFS is a innovation advisory business specializing in consulting services… Continue reading Innovation Advisory Business
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) In its core practice AFS has come across dozens of start-ups of all sorts and makes. Some truly successful, some just about to make it, some lacking, the vast expanse of mediocre ones and last-but-not-least truly odd ones. We often ask ourselves the question what is an… Continue reading What is an Innovative Start-Up?
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) Being concise, yet effectively communicating operational capacity, is key to EIC success. Word limits on proposals require applicants to cover all points succinctly within established parameters on the submission platform. The applicant organization and partnered groups must possess the ability to carry out the proposed project. Proposals… Continue reading Key to EIC Success with Proposals
