ProtoAtlantic - Capitalisation

The Capitalisation strategy during the lifetime of the project will cover three actions:
1) Policy Overview: To bring a product from idea to market startups are faced with the challenge of navigating the myriad of testbed and prototyping infrastructure, business supports, private investors and government policy agencies available to them. This work package will leverage the local knowledge of the partners provide user friendly guidelines for startups on the supports available to bring their idea to market.
2) Consultative Round Table Process on Policy Development: An important part of defining the sustainability measures will entail a series of consultative workshops with key regional stakeholders such as research and educational institutions, large companies and SMEs from a wide range of sectors across all partner regions. Among the list of topics to be examined will be those which make the innovation system developed in WP4 more efficient and effective internationally and across partners areas to ensure that maximum innovative capacity is attained.
3) Financial Sustainability: The WP will comprehensively research and explore, through workshops and desk research, funding resources and other supports for building new synergies in the work of delivering actions that will allow regions to become more innovative.
There are two strategies to enable the project's outputs to be applied beyond the partnership. First, under this work package, a report on the impact of the project will be produced. This will be available online and in hard copy as a resource for policy makers in other regions and Member States. It will provide case studies of best practice and identify the type of infrastructure and policy supports that are available across the participating regions.

The capitalization strategy during the lifetime of the project will cover three actions: 1) Policy Overview: To bring a product from idea to market startups are faced with the challenge of navigating the myriad of testbed and prototyping infrastructure, business supports, private investors and government policy agencies available to them. This work package will leverage the local knowledge of the partners provide user friendly guidelines for startups on the supports available to bring their idea to market. This will be developed into an online platform in WP 4. 2) Consultative Round Table Process on Policy Development: An important part of defining the sustainability measures will entail a series of consultative workshops with key regional stakeholders such as research and educational institutions, large companies and SMEs from a wide range of sectors across all partner regions. Among the list of topics to be examined will be those which make the innovation system developed in WP4 more efficient and effective internationally and across partners areas to ensure that maximum innovative capacity is attained. 3) Financial Sustainability: The WP will comprehensively research and explore, through workshops and desk research, funding resources and other supports for building new synergies in the work of delivering actions that will allow regions to become more innovative.

The partners will build a set of multiregional collaboration schemes (according to their common challenges, strategic interests,proximity, etc.) with the aim to reinforce cooperation and multisite-based action as a way to come up with innovative solutions on blue growth-related sectors.