A variety of actors, each with very specific skills, contributes to successful innovation.
Innovative companies research and develop a new product or service, bring it onto the market and increase their sales - that's the “classic” idea. In addition, innovation also arises in collaboration between research institutions, development laboratories, with companies of different sizes, ages and orientations, in experimental rooms such as real-world laboratories, together with committed actors.
This includes a number of other actors who bring people, organizations, knowledge and technologies together, for example via networks, clusters, hubs, but also support new activities in start-ups or identify innovation-relevant challenges and look for solutions.
