Keywords: education, incubation

Main users: Resident companies or institutions

Program to help companies incorporate innovation processes through the definition of challenges, which we launch worldwide to the entrepreneurial community so they can be those that respond by an acceleration program of 10 weeks following Lean methodologies.

We have detected that startups have become the key element of innovation of consolidated companies. That is why we help large companies in implementing open innovation models helping to define the processes to systematize innovation and take place in a controlled environment. Through a tool developed by our president Josep M. Piqué we encourage innovation through the definition of challenges we launch worldwide to the entrepreneurial community so they can be those that respond. It is through 10 weeks of follow-up and acceleration that we get to generate disruptive solutions tested by prototyping, measuring its impact on the market and defining the associated business model that supports the business strategy. Just 10 weeks after which the corporation will have real data to decide the ""go, no go"" of new business lines. We believe in startups as the key element of market validation as a key element for generating new ideas, and in the company as the key element that allows them to target the solutions and achieve the scalability of the solution. La Salle Technova is, for both, the meeting platform. The program enables the entrepreneur team to identify and assess their hypotheses systematically optimizing its business model and continuously adapting its initial market reality idea. The methodology for them is weekly training and personalized advice. For corporations, the program promotes a permanent flow of innovation for private companies using agile methodologies through the detection and capture of entrepreneurs who are developing solutions. The main benefits for companies are:-Identification and contact with entrepreneurs. -Solve problems and/or generate projects -Validation of using technologies and/or new value propositions in the sector -Learn new methodology for innovation -Positioning In the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

In turbulence markets, like the present ones, those who have better understood the new rules of innovation are the startups because from the first minute of its existence, and thanks to the agile methodologies, they are able to test solutions with real customer and co-create with them the value proposition. Therefore, startups have become the key element of innovation of consolidated companies. Our proposal improves any model, since we use the speed of entrepreneurs to address the challenges and aspirations of corporations. Moreover, all this done in just ten weeks, through an agile method such as Lean Startup. The union of these elements makes it something different from what already exists and much more effective.

In recent years we have worked with large companies such as Hewlett Packard, IBM, Cisco and Intel in defining its challenges, making the call to international startups through the international network of parks, incubators, accelerators and co-working spaces and putting them in contact. And regarding mentored entrepreneurs, they have managed to generate new products / services, define their business models and connect with companies from the origin of their ideas by providing them with market vision, speed and scalability. Throughout these years, La Salle Technova has incubated and accelerated more than 300 business projects with a success rate of 85% and helped to achieve more than 27 million in funding, among which are companies such as Digital Legends, Polymita, VozTelecom, BesTV, DEXMA, fonYou, blueliv, ForceManager, ChicPlace or Viuing. Moreover, over the years we have worked with large companies such as HP, Panasonic, T-Systems, Toshiba, Xerox, La Caixa, Schneider Electric, Epson, Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals, Unitronics, Indra or Simon.

The program is addressed to consolidated companies, willing to implement programs of outsourced innovation. To maximize the impact on these, the other major user of the service are entrepreneurs with startups newly created and / or very close to market technology, which are in learning mode, not running.

This program will be managed and developed by the innovation team La Salle Technova, Technology Park of the University of La Salle, which since 2001 has the goal of accompanying the startups from idea generation to its market launch, growth and consolidation.