Estaablishment of BeBiz Marketplace

CommBeBiz’s Mix & Match objective will be achieved by the creation of a Virtual Marketplace (BeBizMarket) that will bring research projects into online connection with SMEs, entrepreneurs & developers, social innovators and interested other parties, ‘bridged’ (moderated) by knowledge transfer and innovation experts and consortium partners. This marketplace will be established in close cooperation with other innovation brokerage networks such as EIP agri and the Blue Growth Network, as well as with contacts to ICT-Agri networks and similar. The BeBiz marketplace will be an open forum and could serve various purposes depending on the individual goals of researchers and SMEs, including: • Partner search for joint research, development and commercialization activities • SME search for research partners for knowledge input to product development • Researchers search SMEs for further common funding actions • Identification of training on early stage investment/early stage investment opportunities through business angels All searches and offers on the marketplace will be shown on a daily curve on the project website. The marketplace will be moderated to ensure effective matchmaking between offer and demand. The marketplace, the website and databases will be enriched with content and contacts generated and provided by all partners and their specialist networks – for example information, tips on how to succeed in accessing the SME instrument, success stories from successful researchers who have commercialised their project results etc. To create a high level of traffic on the marketplace, a widespread promotional campaign will be launched targeting in particular research institutions and SMEs. This campaign will piggyback on the promotional campaigns for the annual BeBizGo idea competition and also the annual BeBiz Network partnering and networking event to be held at the EBN Congress. EBN 4PM, TEA 2PM, PRA 1PM, MIN 0.2PM