FFI Accelerate Startup Partnership 2024

Purpose and goal:

Aim and objective of the project is to facilitate and accelerate partnerships between Swedish vehicle manufacturers and small and medium-sized companies. Expected results and effects:

Expected result is that the program develops a process / model for how to best facilitate and accelerate partnerships between Swedish vehicle manufacturers and small and medium-sizedcompa nies. Partnerships between large and small companies are value-creating for both parties. Large companies get access to innovation in fast cycles as well as new technology, new business models and new skills.

Small and medium-sized companies get an entrance to a potential customer as well as access to experience regarding the industry, industrialization, upscaling and access to new markets. Approach and implementation:

It is industrial partners who formulate a need or theme for innovation where partnership is needed. With the support of ecosystem partner networks and experience in scouting and matchmaking, the most suitable small and medium-sized companies are then identified. The next step is to initiate a collaborative project in the form of a concept test (Proof of Concept), between the industry partner and the smaller company. The goal is partly to validate that the company´s

offer meet the industrial partner´s needs, and partly to develop a structure for a potential longterm partnership.