Topic 2 - Data-based solutions for sustainable agriculture
Innsomnia Accelerator, as specialist innovation consultancy offers Open Innovation processes for the solution of specific and technical-technological challenges in Agri-food. Including design, execution and compilation and analysis of results of these processes.
The challenge formulators can be the Partnership itself, a consortium of the Partnership, one member of the consortium o agrupation of members. Calls can be directed either to startups or to students.
Scope of the challenges is to discover or develop innovative solutions to technical or technological issues that can arise for example during R&D activities or during R&D projects' implementation.
Open innovation processes include, although not limited to: open challenges, hackathones and ideathones.
Basically, all these processes follow the following steps:
- Analysis of needs.
- Definition of technical challenges to solve.
- Launch of a call for startups. Here we highlight our database of national and international startups (>6.000), from the Agri-food sector and also from other sectors whose technologies can be translated to Agri-food.
- Scouting and selection of startups suitable for the solution of the challenges, alongside with the challenge formulators.
- Mentoring of the startups during the work on the challenge's solutions
- Mentoring of the startups during the work on Proofs of Concept, in collaboration with the challenge formulators, in order to demonstrate viability of the developed solution to the technical challenge to solve.
Innsomnia is a business accelerator placed in Valencia (Spain) in the innovation and startup hub of the Marina, alongside with Lanzadera and BioHub, among others.
We are specialists in Open Innovation consultancy to solve technological challenges. We have been leading innovation since 2016 in different areas such as Fintech, Agrotech, Smartports, Art-tech, Cybersecurity, Insurtech, Presstech and Industry 4.0, working with more than 40 corporates such as Banco Santander, Caixabank, Puertos del Estado an the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
In Agrotech, we have performed an Open Innovation program for AgroBank, we worked alongside with Deloitte in the PERTE Agroalimentario national funding call, and we have managed the 1st edition and are currently managing the 2nd edition of the acceleration program Agro·Lab - ToNoWaste for Valencia Innovation Capital (the innovation department of Valencia City Council).