.Outputs

01

Screening Model for Collaboration
​Output 1

• Answers the general question WHAT INDUSTRY 4.0 SKILLS ARE MISSING?
• Hands-on preparation on Open Innovation and collaboration
• Main barriers to open innovation as a type of collaboration

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02

Skills Development Network 
​Output 2

• Mapping the necessary competences and skills of personnel for open innovation, general collaboration management and how to develop Industry 4.0 products 
• Serves as a pedagogical guide: tools and methods to help transfer knowledge 

03

Upskilling Toolkits
​​Output 3

• Supporting the training of the companies' staff in innovation in Industry 4.0 activities and developing their knowledge and competences in relation to collaboration and open innovation
• This output provides answers to the general question: HOW TO DEVELOP THE MISSING SKILLS?

04

Gamified Platform
​​Output 4

• The practical part of the Lab where real-time co-creation and collaboration for innovation will happen
  
• This is the online Upskilling Lab space
  
• Developing an online platform and digital tools that support innovation and Industry 4.0 collaboration for skills development and access to technology
  

05

Implementation Guidelines
​​Output 5

• Provide a step-by-step clear guidance on how to develop and implement the Upskilling lab 4.0 model by other organisations and businesses
• It represents a Feasibility study of the project in a nutshell focusing on some key questions such as:

1. How to foster more collaboration between startups/scale-ups and mid-sized/big companies?
2. What systematic way for cooperation can be put in place - screen-match-partner phases?
3. What are the biggest challenges during cooperation?
4. Which models of collaboration are the best fit?
5. What can established companies offer startups and vice versa to ensure an efficient cooperation?
6. If and how competitors can be partners?