Innoexplorer round 3 2026

Innoexplorer is for employees at public research and educational institutions and hospitals who have achieved research results with commercial potential and have a goal of establishing a company based on the results. The program invests in early stage entrepreneurial ideas so that their potential can be uncovered and matured to a stage where the idea is ready for the market or can attract additional public or private investment. The fact that the entrepreneurial idea is in an early stage means that it is still in a pre-commercial phase, but that it is based on knowledge and research results that are considered promising by the institution where the applicant is employed, and that are sufficiently mature to begin a process towards commercialization. An Innoexplorer project can neither finance further basic research nor the actual commercialization, such as test sales and sales or marketing activities. The idea can come from any field of expertise, and there does not have to be a possibility of patent or other specific idea protection. However, it is important that the idea is innovative in a way that creates new solutions in the form of new behavior and/or new products, services, processes or technologies.