Crowdpolicy: Open innovation for a sustainable future
During its 10 years of operation, Crowdpolicy’s vision has been to develop and promote new disruptive technologies through direct digital solutions from organizations to the crowd.
Open Innovation is one of the main pillars of the company’s activity, focusing on human capital as well as its power, in order to implement new ideas and applications that bring solutions to all sectors of the economy and society.
Since 2015, we have implemented 36 innovation marathons — crowdhackathons, 15 business acceleration programs — accelerators, creating a single innovation network with over 5,000 developers and over 500 successful PoCs (proof of concept).
Open Innovation in practice
💻Crowdhackathon
Crowdhackathons (Innovation Marathons) are technological open innovation competitions that aim to activate organizations and businesses to create prototype applications promoting the digital transformation of each organization, through new and innovative ideas and applications with social impact.
Duration: 2–3 days
How? Physically / Hybridly / Completely Remotely
More information: https://crowdhackathon.com
📱Bootcamp
Bootcamps are short workshops during which participants are asked to solve a problem using contemporary business model and product development methodologies that promote innovation.
Duration: 1–2 days
How? Physically / Hybridly / Completely Remotely
More information: https://crowdhackathon.com
🚀Accelerator
Accelerators aim to support teams selected from a previous stage (e.g. hackathon) so that they can develop their proposal into MVP (Minimum Viable Product) level.
Duration: 5–6 months
How? Physically / Hybridly / Completely Remotely
More information: https://crowdpolicy.com/oi
🎧Innovation Talks Podcast
Crowdpolicy’s Innovation Talks is a Podcasts service in which the moderator and guest discuss and analyze pre-defined innovation and entrepreneurship topics, thus highlighting opportunities, good practices, illustrative examples and more.
Innovation Talks enables the partner organization or business to communicate innovation and entrepreneurship issues, as well as to promote services and proposals to the public which are presented in an easier way, through stories and examples from everyday life.
The user can visit https://innovationtalks.gr/ and listen to the topic they wish. The talks are also available in a configured Playlist on the audio platform, Spotify, on Google Podcasts as well as on Apple Podcasts.
To date, 46 Innovation Talks have taken place, with important executives of the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem in Greece, from various sectors of the economy.
More information: https://innovationtalks.gr
Crowdpolicy, Shaping the Digital Future with Innovation
Examples
Sustainability Hackathon | Lidl Hellas & A.C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation #hybrid
Τhe Sustainability Hackathon ♻️, the second innovation marathon for the development of solutions and applications for viability, sustainability and entrepreneurship, was held on April 15–17, 2022, with great success and unprecedented participation. The three-day Hackathon was held hybridly, with a physical presence at Innovathens and remotely through innovative participatory and open innovation technologies and the use of collaborative tools and digital means of communication.
More information: https://bit.ly/3O1PELX
Visa Innovation Program | Cohort 4 | The platform for Fintech Stars
The Visa Innovation Program is a pilot platform that develops and scales innovation in the field of fintech. It engages startups and Visa’s global network of partners, such as neo-banks, traditional banks, merchants, government and other high-profile organizations, to review and validate new business propositions and bring innovative products and services to market.
Since its launch in 2018, the Visa Innovation Program has received more than 500 applications from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, the USA and Latin America. Over the past four years, 60 fintech companies have participated in the program. They managed to raise a total of more than 250 million euros in funding and completed 45 PoCs (proof of concepts), pilot applications and commercial agreements as part of the Program.
The Program is developed in collaboration with Crowdpolicy, a provider of enterprise information systems solutions in civictech and fintech, as well as open innovation services (Greece), Eleven, one of the leading venture capital companies in Southeast Europe (Bulgaria), and Hackquarters, startup accelerator and business innovation partner (Turkey).
More information: https://visainnovationprogram.com/
Defence Innovation Challenge | Bootcamp
The Hellenic Ministry of National Defense organizes the 1st Innovation and Technology Competition, with the aim of mobilizing our country’s productive forces by highlighting new, original and innovative ideas/proposals based on new technologies, to highlight innovation as a competitive advantage in the Defense Sector, supporting both the Armed Forces and the Domestic Defense Industry. The theme of the Competition is: “Situational Awareness Innovation”.
More information: https://bit.ly/3yFlkkH
Website: https://defenceinnovation.gr
Find out more:
Crowdpolicy: www.crowdpolicy.com
Crowdhackathons: https://crowdhackathon.com
Crowdpolicy Open Innovation: https://crowdpolicy.com/oi
