December 04, 2008
Projects
  • Laboranova
  • Laboranova (Collaboration Environments for Strategic Innovation)
    Overview:     The concept of Laboranova is to enable knowledge workers to share, improve and evaluate ideas systematically across teams, companies and networks, thereby increasing the innovative output of organisations far beyond performance levels today.The project will accomplish this through an ambitious Research and Technology Development programme, which will result in new information network technologies supporting the three most important pillars in strategic innovation. That is: Ideation Space, Connection Space, Evaluation Space.  
    GRACO Participants: Alfons Sauquet, Elena Bou and Henry Lopez
    Funding and framework: European Community Funding within the sixth European framework IST-5-035262-IP
    Project initiation and expected conclusion: From June 2006 to July 2009
    Key Words: Strategic innovation, collaborative environments, European Living Labs (ENoLL)
  • SUCCESS

  • SUCCESS (Searching Unprecedented Cooperations on Climate and Energy to ensure Sustainability)

    Overview: Within the knowledge triangle of education, research and innovation the pilot project SUCCESS is intended to establish efficient and effective structure of collaboration in large distributed consortia in Europe featuring new governance schemes thereby maximising the efficient use of available resources and an increase in turning R&D results into commercial opportunities. The field of sustainable energy and climate change will be the underlying subject. Based on a benchmarking of past and ongoing collaborations, new and improved models of governance structures for integrated partnerships will be derived with the final goal of strengthening the links between education, research and innovation. Subsequently some of the critical components and models will be implemented and tested using up to three case studies. The partners involved are a comprehensive group of institutions in the knowledge triangle in the field of sustainable energy and climate change as well as establishments dealing with knowledge transfer, business administration governance structures and innovation management.                                                                                                         

    GRACO Participants: Elena Bou, Alfons Sauquet, Francois Collet, Sabrina Moreira; Angel Saz-Carranza
    Funding and framework: European Commission
    Project initiation and expected conclusion: From December 2007 to December 2009
    Key Words: Cooperation, Climate, Energy, Sustainability, Integrated Innovation Networks
  • Co-Networks

  • Company Networks as a Key Competitive Factor: The Impact of collectivity ("Les xarxes d'empreses com a factor clau de competitivitat: l'impacte de la col.lectivitat")

    Overview: This project studies how collaboration can help organizations to create value and how it can support innovation and learning. The study will be conducted in the wine-industry of the Priorat region and in a sample of pharmaceutical companies.

    GRACO Participants: Alfons Sauquet, Elena Bou, Montse Ollé, Silviya Svejenova

    Funding and Framework: COPCA (Generalitat de Catalunya)

    Project Initiation and expected conclusion: From February 2008 to September 2008

    Key Words: Company Networks, Communities of Practice, Clusters, Innovation, Learning