Innovation Roadmaps

The Innovation Roadmap is a platform enabling a step-by-step solution of different innovation related problems.

It may be used to resolve new product development problems, spin-off and new company creation, training, and any problem which may take a linear step-wise solution.

Applications:

• Digital Research Centre, Central Macedonia
• Entrepreneurship in Thessaly
• Knowledge-clusters in Western Macedonia

Services

Platform facilitates online cooperation in different areas of innovation:

• Cooperative new product development
• Cooperative product design
• Cooperative concept development
• Spin-off creation
• Management of intellectual property

It may be also used for training purposes as it supports the collection and systematic guidance to a large portfolio of new product development methodologies, tools, and techniques.

Tools on the Platform

• Creativity tools
• Conjoint analysis
• Quality functional deployment
• Reengineering
• Reverse engineering
• Industrial design
• Rapid prototyping

Potential Users

• Incubators assisting start-ups
• Innovation centres assisting innovators
• Universities and technology institutes
• Training companies and organisations
• New entrepreneurs starting a new company
• Companies diversifying and producing new products
• Scientists wishing to develop a new product based on their research