Phase: Grow - CLIC Ecosystem Playbook

Explore

Build

Grow

Transform

Grow

Phase three

In the ‘Grow’ phase, the ecosystem actively cultivates essential capabilities and refines project portfolios in preparation for the commercialization stage. Effective stakeholder engagement, well established in the ‘Explore’ and ‘Build’ phases, plays a vital role in propagating project outcomes to broader audiences, facilitating a seamless transition from applied research to business-to-business ecosystems and societal transformation towards sustainable, circular systems.

Facilitator's tasks

Grow phase

Validation

This phase for facilitator is all about supporting with tools for validation of the innovation concepts.

Definition

At this point value creations, brand promises and business models are defined for commercialization phase.

Growth

In the growth phase, project portfolios are also busy disseminating results to wider audiences.

Playbook tools

Browse the grow phase tools

Select Type of Tool

Both ecosystem facilitators, and any member of open innovation ecosystem can benefit from all the Playbook tools.

Market analysis with AI tools

Grow

Understand market dynamics and gain strategic insights for innovation commercialization through AI-powered market analysis.

Understand the different needs and motives for collaboration and find a common ground for collaboration.

Exploitation Booster with AI

Grow

Exploitation booster helps project portfolio's different projects to ensure the results from projects are commercialized or further utilized or developed towards higher TRL/SRL/MRL levels.

The facilitator training is a fast and simple way to learn more about the Playbook tools and ecosystem facilitator tasks to get you started with your own ecosystem facilitation.

Market analysis

Grow

Market analysis tool helps you to analyse the possible markets for your innovation and map possible growth directions.

Dissemination plan

Grow

Ecosystem project portfolios need support in successful dissemination. This tool helps them to communicate project results to necessary target groups efficiently.

Great faciliation is all about managing people, teams, networks, information, environment and energy.

Market shaping tools

Grow

Market shaping helps to create a common understanding for the barriers to your target market. It looks at market elements which an ecosystem shape together.

Any tools that are free of use can be edited and shared under Creative Commons license.

Value proposition

Grow

Value proposition canvas defines who your customer is and how your innovation relieves their pains and add value to them. Basic and necessary tool for all innovations in the...

Brand promise definition

Grow

Portfolio projects create different brands. Brand promise tool helps brands to differentiate from competition and define necessary...

Future scenarios and personas

Grow

Future scenarios and personas tool helps you to visualize alternative paths towards your future vision. This method helps stakeholders to align towards collective future: How does the future look and feel...

This tailored workshop for organizations is designed for "train-the-trainer" approach for organizations who need ecosystem facilitation.

Circular design tools

Grow

This workshop introduces circular design thinking to participants and helps them to develop strategies for their product or service.

Circular value chain builder tool

Grow

The circular value chain builder toolbox as well as the workshops are aimed at people that are looking to better understand the end-to-end value chain and to...

The Open Innovation Readiness tool lets you test your company's readiness for open innovation.

Business plan readiness tool

Grow

A good and well defined business plan is a necessity for innovations to grow and develop into commercial executions. This easy assessment tool helps you to identify where your innovations’ business plan needs more work and which parts...