Co-design & Strategic Planning
We help define the focus, goals, challenges, success metrics and structure tailored to your industry and objectives.
Corporate Accelerators
Designed to deliver real results for your company
A Dynamic Solution for Corporations
At Esade eWorks, we help companies build, design and launch custom corporate accelerator programs that generate measurable outcomes, from faster innovation to stronger partnerships and new business models. Whether you're launching your first accelerator, scaling an existing initiative or want to boost your innovation, we provide the expertise, resources, talent and network to ensure its success.
By integrating corporate accelerators into your innovation strategy, your company can not only keep pace with industry advancements but also shape the future of your sector with dynamic solutions, and even enable your organisation to:
- Accelerate innovation and digital transformation
- Foster an entrepreneurial culture and agility within your organisation
- Access to a curated network of startups and innovators
- Develop new revenue streams and business models
- Enhance brand positioning as an innovation leader
- Achieve strategic goals to drive growth, efficiency, and competitive advantage
Tailored Accelerator Programs: our approach and model
Every company is unique, so we co-design a program tailored to your specific needs and goals. Leveraging our +10 years of experience from the eWorks Accelerator, we bring proven methodologies to the corporate context, ensuring impactful outcomes. With a comprehensive approach, guiding you from the initial conceptualisation to the successful execution of the best corporate accelerator program for you.
How can we work with you?
Startup Scouting & Selection
You gain access to relevant, ready-to-go startups and innovators that our team, in collaboration with your team, has previously identified.
Program Execution
We offer bootcamps, workshops, mentor training, access to a network of mentors (including industry leaders, coaches, and Esade faculty), and resources (such as training materials, platforms, and tools).
End-to-End Management
We handle everything from project selection to resources and mentor training in collaboration with your team to ensure a seamless experience and results.
Stakeholder engagement
We ensure alignment and buy-in from key stakeholders within your organisation.
Post-Program Support & Impact
We assist you from the pilot project to partnership relations for your Corporate Accelerator program, helping you move forward.
Our approach is hands-on, flexible, and focused on delivering results tailored to your company’s needs and objectives
What it Looks Like: Success Stories
Digital Garden, by Almirall Group
A derma digital health accelerator aiming to empower outstanding minds that want to help patients make their hopes and dreams come true.
- Goal: explore digital insurance solutions and foster innovation within the organisation.
- What we did: customised bootcamp followed by targeted mentorship sessions.
- Result: 3 solutions selected for follow-up
Visionarium: Innovation by Gilead
It's Gilead Sciences' innovation hub, a project born from the desire to promote disruptive innovation, research, and entrepreneurship in healthcare.
- Goal: drive innovation in public health concerns, such as HIV patient care.
- What we did: program facilitation and expert training.
- Result: strategic projects selected and developed
AI Accelerator
This project brings together scientific and technical talent with an entrepreneurial drive to turn technology into impactful businesses.
- Goal: empower the development of business models based on AI academic research.
- What we did: tailored accelerator training sessions and resources, recruited expert mentors.
- Result: 4 AI startups pitched their project at 4YFN
Ø Waste Accelerator
It's a selective program that aims to support high-growth ideas to promote sustainability, with a specific focus on waste management and its transformation into raw materials.
- Goal: identify and support startups that offer solutions promoting a circular economy and ESG goals.
- What we did: designed and executed an end-to-end accelerator program.
- Result: supported 21 startups in 3 years.
The value of a business school
Beyond consulting
We combine knowledge, practical experience, and real impact with a global network of experts, working alongside you every step of the way to drive innovation.
Strategic Innovation: Leveraging Your Company
Building a strategic growth engine to accelerate your time-to-market, explore new technologies, stay ahead of market shifts, test new business models, and solve specific challenges faster and more effectively than your competition, without as much risk.
Boost your Organisation with Intrapreneurial Innovation
The pursuit of corporate entrepreneurship has emerged as a critical strategy for established companies aiming to foster innovation and sustain competitive advantages.
Corporate entrepreneurship: Driving growth for startups and companies
In today's dynamic business environment, where innovation cycles are shorter than ever, established companies face a constant struggle to keep pace with agile startups.
Ready to launch your accelerator with us?
Whether you're solving a specific challenge or building long-term innovation capability, we’re here to help. Let's collaborate to design a corporate accelerator program that propels your organisation forward.