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monitor the official Calls and Tenders at a EU, National and local level in order to catch and profit
of any opportunity offered.
- Train employees and bring them in touch with the world outside of the office by sending them to
conferences, meetings, and seminars: through interactions with other professionals and
companies in the field, they will grow experience and knowledge and bring it in the company.
- Motivate employees to be more innovative by rewarding their efforts by providing financial
incentives, promotions and opportunities for career advancement, and most of all recognizing
and celebrating their successes
- Promoting an entrepreneurial spirit, encouraging creativity and experimentation, and providing a
platform for employees to share their ideas and insights and more importantly make them will
feel free to express their ideas
- Creating a well equipped work environment that encourages experimentation and risk-taking, a
supportive environment that providing the necessary resources and tools encourages employees
to develop ideas
From a more HR managerial point of view some interesting quick-hints are worth noting:
– Setting a clear innovation goal for their team and communicating it clearly.
– Challenging employees to come up with creative solutions to current problems.
– Providing resources to help employees research and experiment with new ideas.
– Encouraging employees to engage in reading, research, and attending conferences and seminars
that promote innovative thinking.
– Encouraging collaboration, brainstorming, and idea-sharing in the workplace.
– Giving employees the autonomy to take risks and make mistakes without fear of repercussions.
– Rewarding employees for innovative thinking, creativity, and successful projects.

Policy and Actions
Generally speaking all policy makers (both national and local) ought to endeavour in encouraging the
scouting and emerging of disrupting innovations, and this by stepping and support several fields and
areas:

- the incubation, flourishing and maturation of new technologies
- the creation joint experiences and laboratories
- the creation of deep tech start-ups
- the relationship between businesses and researchers
- the relationship between businesses and institution in particular by proposing targeted calls for
projects

In terms of actions to be taken these should focus on main issues such as:

1. Funding: by providing funding to SMEs and companies in general that are working on innovative
projects. Policymakers should offer grants, loans, or tax incentives to companies and SMEs to help them
develop innovative products or services.

OPEN4U: intrOducing Practices in opEn innovatioN 4U - project number 2022-1-IT01-KA220-VET-000085295
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