The “Innovation Ecosystem” network promotes the birth and development of new innovative business models sure to give an edge to all its participants.

Production, research and development, internationalization, training and marketing, are all strategic activities that, if well coordinated, will favour synergistic targets, feat that a single entity could not attain on its own.

Link Innovation staff by coordinating partners’ activities, favours the exchange of know-how (work methods, technologies, marketing and sales plans, etc….) and resources (facilities, technicians, finance, etc…..), applying state of the art techniques such as “collaborative working”, “open innovation”, “networking”.

Network partners work together in ways and settings relevant to their business venture, exchanging commercial, financial and technological information and services.

This mechanism simply develops new opportunities and new business models, attains new high-value-added services, implements technological-organizational solutions, penetrates new markets and advocates one’s offer.

In short, Link Innovation’s Partners expedite innovation and its benefits.

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

The organizational structure is as follows:

MANAGEMENT

The Network Manager, together with the operating committee and a variable number of representative of the seven network business lines, oversees the LINK INNOVATION network. Hereunder the seven network business lines:

1) NETWORK OPERATING ACTIVITIES (funzioni comuni e di coordinamento)

2) HUB AREA

3) BUSINESS AREA

• RESEARCH & INNOVATION AREA
• TECHNOLOGICAL SERVICES & ACCELERATOR AREA
• INNOVATION BUSINESS AREA
• INNOVATIVE CORPORATE FINANCING AREA
• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AREA
• INDUSTRY 4.0

1) NETWORK OPERATING ACTIVITIES (common and coordination)

These are activities essential to the proper network operation performed in a collaborative effort by the network participants, coordinated by the network manager.

LINK S.r.l. is the network “implementing body” Within it each task force, comprised of operators provided by network partners and associates, formally handles these activities.

2) LINK INNOVATION HUB AREA

This area manages communication and relations between partner and associates, or between them and external entities.

3) BUSINESS AREA

LINK INNOVATION BUSINESS NETWORK business area provides support to the network business development between network partners and associates or with various external operators. There are five specialized business areas, each delimited by the know-how predominantly applied (such as: research labs, support with IP management, support with subsidized financing, etc.).

Each Specialized Business Area is a business partner, specialist of a know-how, who organizes the pertinent activities and incorporates all partners and associates who share the same know-how.

Networking

Networking is based on a give and take relationship, be it time, expertise, information; anyone can create and develop a multi-level network, subsequently expanding and strengthen it. Creating a network means the ability to establish a contact while having a clear professional target, generating dialogue, which in turn promotes more contacts nurturing further ties.

Collaborative Working

The advantageous and essential side of this method lies in the opportunity to perceive not the individual but the group as the primary planning entity. Link Innovation Business Network mechanism’ scope of innovation does not merely lie on the informative technology, which is supportive of collaborative activities, but more so on restructuring the entire organizational and sale oriented work flow, from a methodological, operational and technological stand point.

The Italian specialist of the Innovation Management uses the proprietary methodology called “Research Qualification” to accelerate business innovation. The company also specializes in technology transfer, for which it is credited by the “Questio” Board of the Lombardy region and able to obtain and handle research and innovation grants.

IBN, Innovation Broker Network, a professionals’ network specialized in innovation brokering.

Eidon Lab S.c.a.r.l., research organization funded in 1979, specialized in outsourcing research, development, innovation and technological transfer agreements. Eidon Lab is the COIN (Collaborative Open Innovation Network.) network coordinator.

Eidon-Kaires S.r.l. is an industrial business and a research laboratory accredited by MIUR (Ministry of Industry, University and Research). Mainly active in industrial automation (Vision Systems), in new web business research and in the development of “Open Innovation” systems.

Sync Security guarantees the computer security of the entire organization of the client company using a systemic and continuous approach and synchronizing the necessary operations in the legal, compliance, IT, organizational, infrastructural and technological fields.

Agorà delivers to his customers advanced sales and marketing systems for any form of business, based on technologies available on the Internet: from Search Engines to Web 2.0, Web Marketing 360 ° as well as advanced CRM to better manage business activities and customer relations.