Our Innovator’s Compass “Evaluating Impactful Solutions in Bioeconomy” aims to help young inventors recognise the potential of their invention and to stack all cards in their favour to realise their progress into impactful innovations.
Each chapter highlights questions which inventors should consider during their journey towards a market-ready innovation. Our goal is to help you avoid having to say “I don’t know” when talking to that key customer or investor. Thanks to the Innovator’s Compass, you will be able to clearly argue why your innovation will be smart, sustainable, and scalable. You will also not be surprised by questions on where you stand in a value network, your market position, applicable regulations, and your human resources.
New in 2025: a chapter on financing biotech innovations will give you a handy overview of the most common, and some less common, financing options.
The Innovator’s Compass is based on intensive desk-research, minutes of our Triple-S events, discussions with experts, as well as co-creation workshops.
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Feb 2025 – out now:
New: second edition with added chapter “Financing Biotech Innovations”We are grateful to all experts who provided input during our events and the co-creation workshops in 2024 and 2025.
DownloadBiotechnology is one of the key technologies enabling industry to transform itself from relying on fossil-based resources to utilising renewable, natural feedstocks. This defossilisation will be essential to realise a climate-neutral economy, in which our society can enjoy prosperity within planetary boundaries.
The innovations necessary to realise this transformation are challenging, but many inventions are already there. These need to be identified, supported, and brought to the market to they can make an impact. We call those Triple-S Innovations: innovations which are smart, sustainable, and scalable. The Triple-S project aims to support them to realise a future-proof, climate-neutral, and economically successful North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW).
During the course of the project, we first defined criteria to identify Triple-S Innovations – what makes them smart, sustainable, and scalable? Which other, non-technological criteria play a role, either supporting or hindering their impact? Experts from our CLIB network and beyond helped us for example in our kick-off event, or our annual co-creation workshops. With these inputs, we were able to refine our methodology and write our Innovator’s Compass. We regularly scout for new technologies and innovations, by attending events and networking across sectors. In our events, such as the CLIB International Conference CIC or our CILB- webinars, we focus on specific topics or sectors we discover, and shine a light on their innovations.
Once a year, we organise a SME & Start-up Pitching Event @CLIB, where young entrepreneurs can pitch their innovation to investors and industry experts and get valuable feedback.
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Financing Focus – CBE JU Call 2025, 17 March 2025
Going with the flow - Unlocking the assets of continuous fermentation, 11 December 2024
Read more: SME & Start-up Pitch Event @ CLIB, 13 August 2024
Read more: Utilisation of sidestreams - A chance for impactful innovations, 08 July 2024
Financing Friday – Focus CBE JU Call 2024, 12 April 2024
Financing Friday - How to finance your bioeconomy innovation, 08 December 2023
Read more: SME & Start-up Pitch Event @ CLIB, 16 August 2023
Read more: Realising the potential of biotechnology, 11 May 2023
The project is implemented by CLIB – Cluster industrielle Biotechnologie e.V.
CLIB is an international open-innovation cluster of large companies, SMEs, start- ups, academic institutes, and universities, as well as other stakeholders active in biotechnology and the circular bioeconomy. We work to promote and support industrial biotechnology in sustainable processes by actively linking stakeholders along and across value networks and identifying new opportunities.
If you are interested in Triple-S, please contact the project coordinator
Dr. Tatjana Schwabe-Marković or or someone else from the CLIB team.
The project is funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia from February 2023 until January 2026.
