The Innovation Booster – Sport & Physical Activity aims to advance innovation in the Swiss sport ecosystem. It brings together businesses, academics and sport organisations to develop new partnerships and projects with an open innovation culture.
4-step process
To start with, we are looking for a theme leader who is facing a challenge related to sport or physical activity to define a project and its goals. Each selected theme will go through the same process of 4 phases, applying the Design Thinking methodology.
Challenge
In the first phase we explore, define and contextualise the most pressing challenges under a specific theme. The theme leader oversees this process, while we will select experts and participants for the sprint session. The theme leader, the experts as well as the participants will all be selected through open calls.
Sprint
The sprint session, lasting from 1 to 4 days, is split in multiple steps of ideation to generate a maximum of ideas, which are enriched and selected to end up in scenarios. The scenarios will highlight a number of assumptions which we will test in the 3rd phase.
Test
During this phase, selected partners work together to test some of the assumptions, with an approximate budget of CHF 30’000 at disposal per theme. The outcomes will help to decide which scenarios and ideas will make it into the next Post-Booster phase.
Post
In the last phase we support the most promising scenarios and ideas to transform them into innovative projects.
Get involved
Open Call
Propose & lead your own challenge
Suggest a challenge to be selected as one of the Innovation Booster themes.
As a Theme Leader, you will be involved in all phases of the Innovation Booster, from defining the challenge you wish to solve to launching the project.
Participate in an upcoming challenge
Apply to participate in one or more of the upcoming Innovation Booster themes.
As a participant, you will be able to participate in the sprint phase, develop ideas and continue your involvement at your convenience during the test phase.
