01 January 2018 – 31 March 2020
Objective
How do you recognize a real business opportunity that is not just another new idea? ORCERIS aims at increasing the success rate of new business ideas for the circular economy and raw materials.
The solution (technology)
ORCERIS aims at increasing the success rate of new business ideas for the circular economy in the ESEE region (Hungary and Slovakia). This is done through ‘Opportunity Recognition and Exploitation Workshops’ (OREW), a format that uses pattern recognition techniques and gamification to enhance peoples’ skills to recognize opportunities and identify suitable circular business models. The workshops will be tailored to the strengths and needs of the region, and specifically target (aspiring) entrepreneurs and innovation managers from SMEs. Idea implementation will be supported by mentoring a network of locally embedded business support and science institutions.
Partnership
- Flemish Institute for Technological Research NV (VITO), Belgium (Lead partner)
- Bay Zoltan Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research, Hungary
- Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
- Wuppertal Institute, Germany