TAKE IT UP
TAKE IT UP is the promotion pillar of Europe INNOVA aimed at enhancing, disseminating and facilitating the uptake of the outputs developed by Europe INNOVA partnerships. TAKE IT UP will act as an exploitation facility for current projects offering specialist support for:
- Better positioning the new services/tools in order to match them with companies’ needs
- Better communication to potential users (ISP)
- Developing a winning exit strategy (ensuring the widest and continued use of services/tools by ISP once the project has ended)
TAKE IT UP service portfolio includes:
- Exploitation services and coaching for successful adoption (exit strategy support)
- Methodology toolkits (testing, how to pitch)
- Capacity building on exploitation issues for enhancing skills of project partners
- Peer review by international experts
- Access to users’ feedback and a labelling process enabling improved user friendliness, visibility, diffusion of the new services/tools developed
- Matchmaking/testing opportunities
- ‘Codification for use’ of the new service/tool and its insertion in the Europe INNOVA repository
EBAN was invited to participate in the TAKE IT UP initiative coordinated by META Group (Early stage venture capital fund member of EBAN).
EBAN uses its expertise about the early stage market, which includes data collection on a regular basis and publications with policy recommendations, concerning sectors of interest for TAKE IT UP through projects funded under Europe Innova. The result of this collaboration is most evident in the mapping report prepared by EBAN "Get in touch with early stage investors in Europe", available for EBAN members upon request and downloadable on the "learning corner" of the TAKE IT UP website (for registered members only).
While working with TAKE IT UP, EBAN will benefit from its access to the investment community (Europe and beyond) and promoteTAKE IT UP to its network of early stage industry contacts including through its newsletter.
Additional information about the TAKE IT UP project is available in the following documents and on the website www.takeitup.eu.
