Presentation of Accelerate project.

1. Accelerate
A Platform for the Acceleration of go-to market in the
ICT industry
Päivi Jaring (paivi.jaring@vtt.fi)

2. • Accelerate is an ITEA2 -project (www.itea3.org)
running from September 2013 until November 2016
• Accelerate has 18 partners from five countries
• Effort is in total 99 PY
• Budget is in total 11,4 Meur
• Accelerate will focus on the “European Paradox” –
great science, poor marketable innovations.
• Aim of Accelerate is to create services to accelerate
the speed from ideas to business, based on the
needs of the European technological industry
Introduction

3. Consortium
Belgium:
• CogniStreamer
• Sirris
• TE Connectivity
• Zenjoy
Finland:
• AAC Global
• Aptual
• Bittium Wireless
• F-Secure
• Inno-W
• Lappeenranta Technical
University
• VTT Technical Research Center of
Finland Ltd.
France:
Tobagos
Vifib
Romania:
Beia Consult International
Siveco
Spain:
Sivsa
PlanetMedia
University of Mondragon

4. Major Objectives

5. • Acceleration is challenge for most technology companies in Europe
– Established ICT companies with internal incubation programs or with
incubation needs
– Non ICT companies that wish to extend their offering with ICT enabled
solutions.
– In 2010, there were 815 000 high-tech companies in the domain of
knowledge-intensive services in Europe *; of this considerable amount
are SMEs
– Business incubators & accelerators
• So far in 17 European countries we managed to identify >1233
accelerators/ incubators ! via these we will reach technology
companies
Market relevance

6. Workpackages

7. >> Acceleration platform is a marketplace for acceleration services/products &
place for sharing acceleration-related information <<

8. More information:
www.accelerateproject.eu
www.twitter.com/accelerateproj
www.slideshare.net/accelerateproject