The profile of Greenovate! Europe E.E.I.G.

Greenovate! Europe is an independent European expert group dedicated to open innovation for sustainable business. Its members are experienced professionals with business and technical expertise able to facilitate innovation processes for environmental technologies along the entire innovation value chain from research to market. G!E provides innovation support services at EU level to research laboratories, technology developers, companies willing to acquire or spin-out new technologies, and investors.

Together, we offer a pool of more than 500 experienced innovation advisers and more than 2000 technical experts.

Headquarters in Brussels - Partners amongst others in Amsterdam, Athens, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Lahti, London, Madrid, Milan, Nice, Nicosia, Pamplona, Stuttgart, and Vienna.

The core expertise of Greenovate! Europe relates to

• knowledge identification and acquisition: technology scouting, licensing-in and spinning-in ventures
• collaborative innovation: customer and lead user involvement, R&D collaboration, expert knowledge
• knowledge commercialisation: marketing R&D and technologies, licensing out, spinning-out new ventures and technology sale
• cross-cutting services: strategic analysis, technical and commercial evaluation of knowledge and technologies, legal services and IPR management, access to finance, and open Innovation training

Sectoral focus: all technologies and services that have a positive life-cycle impact on the environment, such as renewables, energy efficiency, sustainable construction, water and waste water, land and soil remediation, clean production processes, bio-based products, etc.

Geographical outreach: Greenovate! Europe is a membership-based non-for-profit structure headquartered in Brussels. It recruits its 28 members currently from 13 European Members States. It has extended networks into those communities related to eco-innovation (science, clusters, intermediaries, SMEs, finance).

For more information, please contact Astrid Severin or Katharina Krell, Managing Directors