Project cooperationUpdated on 25 May 2026
Cluster 2 – HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-HERITAGE-02 / Scaling Up Creative Startups for Disruptive Innovation
Lecturer and researcher. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Management of Technology at Mondragon Unibertsitatea
Arrasate - Mondragón, Spain
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Key Objectives & Expected Outcomes
Identify Sector-Specific Growth Factors: Pinpoint the exact drivers (and barriers) that distinguish creative startups from other industries.
Enhance Investor Readiness: Develop innovative, credible frameworks for assessing creative technologies and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) to attract risk capital.
Boost Cross-Sectoral Innovation: Build advanced mechanisms (e.g., next-gen matchmaking platforms, shared resource models) that lower investment needs and foster spillover effects into other industries.
Feasibility & Scalability: Ensure all developed approaches are highly effective, innovative, and immediately applicable across Europe under the current legal framework.
Partners We Are Looking For
To build a competitive consortium, we are seeking proactive partners with expertise in the following areas:
Academic & Research Institutions: Experts in cultural/creative industries (CCI), entrepreneurship, innovation management, or economic sociology.
CCI Ecosystem Enablers: Creative hubs, incubators, accelerators, and clusters with direct access to a solid network of creative startups.
Financial & Legal Experts: Venture capital firms, business angels, or legal experts specializing in IPR valuation and investor-readiness programs for intangible assets.
Tech Providers: Software developers or platform architects capable of building next-generation matchmaking or resource-sharing platforms.
Public Authorities / Policy Makers: Entities interested in implementing these frameworks at a regional or national level to ensure European-wide feasibility.
Are you ready to unleash the disruptive potential of Europe's creative economy? > Let’s connect to discuss how your expertise fits into our proposal and co-create a winning project.
Stage
- Ideation - identifying the project idea
- Design - setting the project scope
Call
- Destination: Innovative Research on European Cultural Heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries
Type
- Partners for an existing consortium
- A consortium to join as partner
Organisation
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Project cooperation
Cluster 2 – HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-HERITAGE-02
- Completing the consortia
- A consortium to join as partner
- Destination: Innovative Research on European Cultural Heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries
Andy Ramorasata
Director of Development and consulting at ANIMA INVESTMENT NETWORK ASSOCIATION
Marseille, France
Project cooperation
- A consortium to join as partner
- Partners for an existing consortium
- Ideation - identifying the project idea
- Destination: Innovative Research on European Cultural Heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries
Yang Jiang
Professor at University of Hull
Hull, United Kingdom
Project cooperation
AI-Supported, Practice-Based Entrepreneurship for Innovation in Creative Startups
- Completing the consortia
- A consortium to join as partner
- Design - setting the project scope
- Partners for an existing consortium
- Ideation - identifying the project idea
- Drafting - writing the project proposal
- Destination: Innovative Research on European Cultural Heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries
Ciara Glasheen-Artem
Vice Dean of Research & Innovation, Faculty of Creative and Performing Arts and Media at Munster Technological University
Cork & Kerry, Ireland