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Description
CRO STARTUP (NUTS code HR05) is an NGO, founded with the mission to strengthen startup community in Croatia and put Croatia on global startup map.
Project:
Croatia is in 42nd place in the Global Innovation Index 2022 out of a total of 132 countries and in 27th place out of 39 European economies. Among the biggest weaknesses of Croatia are low level of scientific cooperation between universities and industry, low level of cluster development, and the underdeveloped business environment. The stagnation that has been happening for the last 10 years needs to be reversed.
Project Activities:
WP 1 – National Innovation Event with Hackathon focused on Green Industry and Blue Growth. Events will be held in Zagreb, Osijek, Rijeka, Split, hackathons will be held in Zagreb and Split. Two most promising ideas will be selected for further development.
WP 2 –Business Development and Business Capacity Building:
Execution of the entrepreneurial program with R&D elements
2 selected hackathon teams (Zagreb/Split) participate in 6 months entrepreneurial program with R&D elements. Project team members and mentors follow their progress and support them. 2 hackathon teams attend at the end one-week bootcamp. After finishing the program, Smart Innovation Norway will make report on definition of next steps to raise the TRL status end readiness evaluation to perform these steps for both hackathon solutions.
Execution of the investment readiness program
The 2 selected hackathon teams will participate simultaneously in 6-months investment readiness program with an online investment readiness tool. Project team members and mentors follow their progress and support them.
Smart Innovation Norway is responsible for entrepreneurial program with R&D elements and its implementation. Project Promotor is in charge of the investment readiness program and investor meet up