Co-create
Innovations and new products or services should meet the customer's needs. Sadly, this is not always happening. Therefore, we participate in public and private projects as an ecosystem enabler - we facilitate the growth of the ecosystems through means mentorship, connections or market access.
What do we do?
We aim to support the delivery of impactful innovation, which fits customer needs - solving pains or creating gains. We use different approaches – User-Centred Design (UCD) for the creation of smart products, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to prove if we are going the right way, Pilot testing in the real business environment, or Capitalization & Exploitation of advanced technologies that are necessary for economic success.
What did we achieve so far?
As a result of all our activities mentioned above, we have been part of enabling 50+ innovations, developed 50+ products and co-created 6+ enabling ecosystems. Find out more about a few of them.
Accelerator
Project Accelerator focused on the exploration and piloting the path of innovative acceleration programmes towards better business support in the Danube region. It had a strong transnational dimension - Regions with well-performing innovation systems and partners with successful acceleration schemes assisted weaker regions or partners with limited experience.
We co-created a brand new methodology for the organization of a successful acceleration programme with a focus on all crucial aspects of startup development, as well as 16 new products (acceleration programmes) in 8 European countries. In the Czech Republic, the product is called DEXIC Accelerator.
SMART4MD
Project SMART4MD was implemented to provide an innovative patient support tool to develop a mHealth application that is specifically targeted to patients with mild dementia. The SMART4MD tool helps patients to adhere to their treatment, reduce the progression of their illness. This will slow the patients’ cognitive and functional decline, avoid carers getting exhausted and reduce costs of emergency care.
While using user-centric design (focus groups, interviews, tests), we have developed the SMART4MD app for tablets based on simplicity, memory helpers, reminders, photos, information sharing with carers and doctors and easiness of use for the patients.
NewGenerationSkills Methodology
Young generations have the potential to be pro-active engines of innovation. Project NewGenerationSkills was unlocking youth’s unexploited potential starts at a local level by developing their skills and competencies and creating an enabling environment to help their innovative ideas grow into ventures with high social added value, potentially taken up by the private & public sectors transnationally.
We co-created a new methodology for interweaving innovation and youth entrepreneurship support that contributes to bridging the gap between education and new skills needed for new job positions. This methodology helps the youth in transition from education to the labour market leading to better economic performance, lower brain drain and increased quality of local working and living environment.
LiCEA
The goal of LiCEA project was the development and application of SMART tools that allow the discovery of numerous unexploited energy-saving opportunities in regional industrial clusters along the supply chain of SMEs.
Our role was the testing of the Tools with 20 SMEs (out of 120 SMEs in total) from the plastic industry. Together with other partners, we have reached a cross-sector breakthrough in energy efficiency through energy auditing applied in a life cycle perspective.
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Frequently asked questions
What does co-creation mean in practice at DEX Innovation Centre?
Co-creation at DEX Innovation Centre means combining several concrete approaches: User-Centred Design for creating smart products, User Acceptance Testing to check whether development is going the right way, pilot testing in a real business environment, and capitalization and exploitation of advanced technologies. The aim is innovation that fits customer needs by solving pains or creating gains.
Who does DEX Innovation Centre co-create with?
DEX Innovation Centre takes part in public and private projects as an ecosystem enabler, working alongside project partners, companies and end users. In the LiCEA project it tested SMART energy-saving tools with 20 small and medium-sized enterprises from the plastics industry, out of 120 SMEs involved in total, together with the other project partners.
How are digital health solutions validated before market entry?
Validation combines user-centric design with testing. In the SMART4MD project, DEX Innovation Centre used focus groups, interviews and tests to develop a tablet application for patients with mild dementia, built on simplicity, memory helpers, reminders, photos and information sharing with carers and doctors. User Acceptance Testing and pilot testing in a real environment complete the approach.
What is a healthcare living lab?
A Living Lab is a setting for real-world validation with hospitals, schools, SMEs and public actors. DEX Innovation Centre helps create and facilitate Living Labs that engage users in testing and refining innovations, so that a solution is confronted with the routines of the people who will use it before it is offered on the market.
What does DEX Innovation Centre mean by ecosystem enabling?
As an ecosystem enabler, DEX Innovation Centre facilitates the growth of innovation ecosystems through mentorship, connections and market access. This role is delivered inside public and private projects rather than as standalone consulting, and has contributed to enabling more than ten innovations, developing more than forty products and co-creating more than six enabling ecosystems.
What was co-created in the Accelerator project?
The Accelerator project explored and piloted innovative acceleration programmes for better business support in the Danube region, with regions and partners experienced in acceleration assisting weaker ones. DEX Innovation Centre co-created a new methodology for organising an acceleration programme covering all crucial aspects of startup development, plus sixteen acceleration programmes in eight European countries.