Our expertise

At CLIC Innovation, we drive sustainable innovation by combining strategic insight with hands-on experience. We connect companies, researchers, policymakers, investors and consumers to co-create breakthrough solutions in bioeconomy, circular economy, and future energy systems.

Our work focuses on enabling open innovation and collaboration, coordinating large-scale RDI projects and ecosystems, and providing thematic expertise in key sustainability areas.

We help our partners navigate EU policy and funding landscapes, anticipate change through foresight, and turn innovation into real impact – from ideas to commercialization.

Here’s what we do:

Enabling multi-stakeholder collaboration and open innovation

  • Prepare competitive funding proposals for large-scale RDI projects, consortiums, and ecosystems
  • Coordinate, manage and lead complex RDI initiatives, ecosystems, and multi-partner consortia
  • Facilitate collaboration across industry sectors, disciplines, and stakeholder groups
  • Support co-creation, open innovation and ecosystem development
  • Lead communication, dissemination, and exploitation and other impact activities in RDI activities

Shaping a future-ready operating environment

  • Develop market-shaping strategies to enable the sustainability transition
  • Navigate and influence the evolving EU policy and funding landscape

Supporting and advancing strategic adaptability

  • Use foresight to anticipate change and support long-term planning
  • Align sustainability goals with evolving market opportunities with our SRIA (strategic research and innovation agendas) work

Helping turn innovation into impact

  • Measure, analyze and communicate the impact of RDI activities
  • Connect RDI projects and funding sources to build a coherent path towards commercialization and concrete impact

Providing thematic expertise in key sustainability areas