About A4Sustinno | Ekonomski fakultet u Sarajevu

Project Description

The A4SUSTINNO proposal addresses the ADRION SO 1.1, and aims at strengthening capacities at the innovation ecosystems throughout the whole ADRION area. Nine organization from eight countries, including APs, combine personnel and material resources for jointly developing the overall novel methodology and implementing pilot studies for demonstrating its flexibility, transferability and general applicability.

The overall objective of the project is the development and testing of a highly replicable business model for the ADRION area that will constitute a novel supporting mechanism for innovative start-ups and existing SMEs, through setting up distributed local networks of relevant actors, following a quadruple-helix approach, redesign of training modules to include sustainability and quality, and development of on-line tools for identifying start-ups’ training needs, altogether comprising a distributed and interregional 1-stop-shop for less-developed innovation ecosystems.

The main beneficiaries will be all the actors of the innovation ecosystems in the ADRION area.

The novel methodology will be tested extensively in 9 areas with different characteristics, so that the final outcome will be applicable throughout the whole ADRION area, and the user requirements for the platform will satisfy the needs of all partner ecosystems, due to the deeply transnational approach in the development of all outcomes.

The innovative features consist of the unique matching of training needs offered by the digital platform, the distributed Science and Technology Parks type of mechanism that will be created in each local ecosystem, by summing resources and capacities of all relevant stakeholders, so that an almost full range of services could be offered even in areas with minimal support structures.

Project’ pillar activities:

Analysis of Business Support Ecosystems, their performance & sustainability, creation of Networks – Set up of Distributed Local Networks (DLNs) of cooperation between the relevant stakeholders at each partner territory, which will relate to each other, and will be able to operate jointly at the interregional level.

Redesign of current practices and development of on-line platform – Redesign of standard training modules in acceleration programs to include sustainability and quality issues in all ADRION area, and development of an innovative digital tool for identifying startups’ training needs.

Regional and Interregional Pilot demonstrations – Pilot demonstration of a locally distributed one-stop-shop mechanism for supporting innovative and sustainable ecosystems in the ADRION area.

Target Group:

Local public authority – Municipalities, provinces, prefectures, districts and their councilors, elected board members and their staff.

Regional public authority – Regional authorities / Directorate for development programming or relevant and related department staff.

Higher education and research organizations - Universities and their Technology Transfer Offices (TTO), Research Institutions, relevant to the subject of sustainable development, and quality assurance or providers of support for start-ups and SMEs.

SME - Prospective start uppers, Innovative start-ups, Innovative SMEs of all sectors of activity (priority to the sectors identified for SO 1.1, and to the ones identified in S3 for each individual partner area), Quality Assurance consultants and certification authorities.

Business support organization – Chambers of Commerce and SMEs, Associations of start-ups, Acceleration units, Incubators/pre-incubators, Science and Technology Parks, Development companies.