Novel Methods Improving Production Innovation Potential with Examples of Senior care-related Solutions

Concept of the project:

• In each partner country (Hungary, Finland, France, Spain, Romania, Italy and Ireland) there is a policy instrument which aims to support highly digitalized new product and service development for SMEs. Within the framework of NOTRE, partners dedicate their efforts to support new product development policy improvement, based on the example of senior care-related innovation, applying a test infrastructure for product validity and relevance.
• Following the exchange of experience, participating regions and countries dedicate their efforts to innovate their respective new product/new service instrument with components referring to the test and validation environment or any additional input gained during the learning phase.
• Partners commit to apply a strategy for building highly digitalized test and demonstration infrastructures, targeting new products and services launched for seniors.

Objectives:

• Improving policy instruments targeting ‘healthy ageing related innovation’ is the overall goal of the project;
• to contribute to exchange of experience and knowledge in setting up and operating test and experimentation environment for seniors’ product and service development;
• to create a network of internationally connected test facilities and households enabling unique, international product validation environment for SMEs and;
• to develop new policy instruments or improve existing ones helping SMEs with more successful new product launches.