NIR-VANA está lista para surfear...
People adore surf! It is about freedom, about playing with nature, about fun, about facing unpredictable challenges and being tanned and sharp. Surf looks cool and easy to do when you sit on the beach and observe the advanced ones. They literally glide over and through beautiful blue giants and rarely lose control. But whoever tried wave surfing knows how tough it is even to keep the balance on the board. . And the only way to proficiency is just to keep on doing it. Somehow similar to the NIR-VANA project (Networking Innovation Room for Value Added Networking Alliances) co-creation and implementation process.After 6 months of proposal preparation, 26 months of implementation trough co-creation, discussion rounds, questionnaire analysis, programming, feedbacks, presentations, meetings, trainings and more feedback collection from the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) Innovation advisors (IAs), their clients and other relevant innovation agents in Europe, we have created the platform basis for the biggest open innovation network in Europe.The NIR-VANA project was developed under the umbrella of the H2020 program with the aim to improve and support human relationships between SMEs, their partners and innovation advisors, in an innovation ecosystem approach. We looked for the way to create a tool to manage the innovation ecosystem of EEN and non-EEN similar agents (like SME Associations) and to implement the concept of open innovation (OI) to the needs of SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises).Open Innovation is a paradigmatic change in the way innovation is performed that is object of disruptive improvement improvement with the advent of the internet, the crowdsourcing, and the artificial intelligence, in the century of the online platforms. Involving other parties when developing new products and technologies can be of great added value. The today understanding of open innovation (OI) considers innovations to be complex (or poorly understood) processes that are typically only successful, if several actors collaborate regardless the configurations. However, OI and cooperation models are becoming more important against the background of shortening product life cycles and at the same time rising expenditures for R&D.Pedimos haber alcanzado el impulso con la actual plataforma nir vana para el ecosistema EEN. El momento emocionante es ahora mismo, justo antes de saltar a la fase de explotación, que nos llevará al siguiente nivel. Este punto nos remite al paralelo de surf.Lo que más gusta de los surfistas es la sensación de encontrarse completamente en este momento. Ellos saben bien que el océano es infinitamente más potente e imprevisible de lo que somos, pero si confía en sus habilidades y rindáis su necesidad de controlar las cosas completamente, es posible que encontrará su sitio en la ola y que el viaje sea tan dulce, incluso. Cuando sólo dura un rato.