Ignite Sweden part 2
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | SISP Service & Development AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 3 723 886 |
| Project duration | January 2020 - December 2020 |
| Status | Completed |
Important results from the project
The purpose of Ignite Sweden is to accelerate startups´ path to commercialization by helping them meet relevant customers and initiate commercial collaborations with them. Ignite Sweden has developed a matching method that ensures that startups get to meet the right customer, with the right needs and has developed sales coaching both before and after the customer meeting to give the startup as good conditions as possible to start a commercial relationship. Ignite has also developed a digital tool for the matching process, as well as important support resources such as legal support.
Expected long term effects
Number of startups that received meetings through Ignite: 648, Number of participating needs owners from business and the public sector: 221 Number of meetings: 3602 Number of commercial collaborations: 230, 1 of 6 startups 7 operatively engaged incubators and active collaboration with 10 more Ignite has conducted needs assesments with over 200 Swedish and international large companies and 35 within the public sector.
Approach and implementation
One of the success factors for Ignite Sweden is that we have invested in building sustainable work models and a flexible and scalable organizational model that integrates our network: Sweden´s excellence incubator network and Science Parks are part of both our strategic and operational organization. Together, we have conducted 55 matchmaking events in 20 cities around Sweden, and thus mobilized both nationally and regionally. By including global goals in our needs analysis model, we have matched more startups with solutions to our global challenges. We are proud of that.