Design Option Paper

Document that will condense the project results providing a practical guide for all the innovation agencies interested in providing support activities to foster collaboration between SMEs and innovative start-ups. It will be developed and written by the partner of the consortium during all the project steps, and will contain this information: • a description of the challenge addressed by the project; • some background information on the topic of Open Innovation in SMEs; • a brief description of the method adopted to perform the project activities; • a review of the good practices found on the topic; • a description of the initiatives designed by the project team to address the challenge, that will describe with clarity all the aspects of its Service Delivery System; • a review of the lessons learnt collected thanks to the validation process; • an estimate of costs and resources needed for the implementation of the initiatives; • a set of recommendations and practical suggestions for all the innovation agencies interested in the topic.