Are you an SME and want to innovate but don’t know how? Do you want to be inspired, trained and updated to be able to innovate in your company?

At Barcelona Activa we believe that innovation is everyone’s business, and that it is possible to do if you have the right resources and a good strategy.

That is why we work with the mission of promoting business innovation as a source of economic competitiveness and generation of quality employment, to help companies in our city have more tools to innovate and be able to do so with greater impact to position themselves in the market.

CONNECTIO

CONNECTIO is Barcelona Activa's open innovation business platform whose mission is to connect open innovation opportunities with companies in the ecosystem that can offer their solutions.
With CONNECTIO, Barcelona Activa wants to invigorate and promote open innovation among Barcelona companies and increase its impact and visibility.

SERVICES AND PROJECTS

Barcelona Deep Tech Node

Pre-acceleration service that accompanies entrepreneurial projects with high technological impact.

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UXLab

Service for conceptualising and improving product and service usability, whether physical or digital.

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Advice on innovation

Strategic advice and support for SMEs that want to start innovating, looking for new opportunities or integrating creativity techniques.

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Barcelona Retail Lab

Laboratory to promote digitalisation and competitiveness of local commerce.

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Estudi InnoSeus

Qualitative identification of innovation centres in the city of Barcelona.

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Prototyping service

Support, guidance and accompaniment services to deal with prototyping processes in a strategic and agile manner.

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Innodiàlegs

Training for SMEs of tools and strategies to innovate. Experts in business innovation give periodical masterclasses.

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Tech4Climate

Acceleration programme for start-ups in the sustainability field.

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EIT Urban Mobility

European project that favours the transformation of urban mobility towards sustainability.

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Programmes to innovate

INNOVATION DATA

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Barcelona, fourth most innovative city in Europe (font: Índex Nature Science City, 2020)

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Barcelona, sixth city with the most innovative activity and presence of start-ups in Europe (font: MWCapital, 2019)

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Barcelona, fourth most attractive city for foreign investment in R&D in the world (font: Global Cities Investment Monitor, KPMG, 2019)
 

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Barcelona, quarta ciutat més innovadora d’Europa (font: Índex Nature Science City, 2020)
 

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Barcelona, sisena ciutat amb més activitat innovadora i presència d’start-ups d’Europa (font: MWCapital, 2019)

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Barcelona, sisena ciutat amb més activitat innovadora i presència d’start-ups d’Europa (font: MWCapital, 2019)

TESTIMONIALS

At Barcelona Activa we work for the business fabric and innovative culture growth and to make them become a reality and an engine for economic and social change. They have already innovated, and you, what are you waiting for?