Smart City - Open Innovation Challenge - Catalan Solutions

4 – 6 Nov 2025 | Barcelona - Hospitalet del Llobregat, Spain

ChallengeUpdated on 24 October 2025

AI-Powered Tool for Matching Open Innovation Challenges with Catalan Tech Providers

Open Innovation Senior Consultant at ACCIÓ

Barcelona, Spain

About

ACCIÓ is launching a pilot project to implement an AI-based tool that automates the scouting and matching process between innovation challenges and technology providers in Catalonia. Currently, this process is manual and time-consuming, despite ACCIÓ having valuable internal data across various formats and platforms. The initiative aims to enhance efficiency, speed, and quality in identifying relevant companies for open innovation opportunities, while also increasing impact and success cases.

Our challenge

·       We seek a digital solution powered by generative AI that can automatically analyze innovation challenges and match them with suitable technology providers from ACCIÓ’s internal databases.

·       The tool must process structured and unstructured data, support multilingual input (Catalan and English mainly), and generate actionable outputs such as Excel files and reports with relevant company matches, contact details and relevance scores.

·       It must also ensure traceability of the identification process, allowing us to understand how and why each company was selected.

·       The solution should be scalable, secure and usable by ACCIÓ’s internal teams to support both permanent and event-based innovation platforms.

Topic

  • AI
  • Data Management and Analytics
  • GovTech
  • Digital Tools

Type

  • Proof of concept/pilot testing
  • Client-provider collaboration (commercial agreement)

Organisation

ACCIÓ

Public Entity

Barcelona, Spain

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