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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

About

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

Mondragon Unibertsitatea

Academia

Arrasate - Mondragón, Spain

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