Industry &
Regional Clusters
Build an innovation cluster where innovators can meet investors, collaborate with corporates, and forge new business opportunities

An Innovation platform to help you
manage your
open calls and challenges matchmaking knowledge repository funding programs citizen engagement program
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Create a network for your community. Where members can provide mentorship, opportunities, and resources

Use one tool for your website, submissions, evaluation, pipeline, and community management

Provide different updates or data visibility depending on membership levels or types

Monitor the growth and performance of your cluster
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Run Innovation initiatives
Manage all your innovation initiatives on one platform.
Launch initiatives
Allow users, teams, and startups to make submissions for initiatives such as open calls, challenges, and hackathons. Easily coordinate the judging feedback and scoring process.
Pipeline
Store all projects on an active pipeline where you can continue to work on their development with your team.

Develop online communities with a purpose
Build a community of industry or regional members working together towards a common goal.
Cooperative Ecosystems
Create an innovation platform for co-creation between corporates, academia, startups, government, Investors, and other stakeholders. Let users build profiles to showcase their requirements, offerings, or ideas. Facilitate communication through user-messaging and discussion tools and recommend matches between entities in your community to encourage powerful collaborations.
Resources
Keep your community engaged and informed by centralizing all your innovation resources, such as events, new policies, content, and funding opportunities, on your innovation platform. Easily update members with new and relevant content through newsletter digests. Allow members to contribute their content with your approval or, depending on their permissions

Manage all your data effectively
Manage your innovation data your way.
Interconnected and Integrated
Integrate any data relevant to your program directly to your platform. You can ensure your platform is connected to other national or regional ecosystems through the use of APIs.
Create an active directory of funding opportunities
Allow your community members to post and apply to funding opportunities. Encourage cross-organizational collaboration by allowing them to post and announce that they are looking for partners and receive recommendations of relevant partners.
Privacy settings
Set granular privacy settings to provide a personalized user experience based on user groups and types.

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Since 2017 Guidehouse has worked in close collaboration with SkipsoLabs to design, develop, and launch the Empower Innovation Network. SkipsoLabs has demonstrated passion, dedication, and hard work during our partnership to create a powerful platform to empower the cleantech community worldwide. The SkipsoLabs team is responsive and manages our platform development in an efficient & thorough manner.

~ Laura Vogel, Associate Director
Guidehouse
