ICSC Innovation Funds Database

ICSC Innovation Funds Projects are projects reserved to affiliates of the ICSC National Center. These projects have the following characteristics:

• They must be led by one of the private companies affiliated with ICSC.
• They may see the participation of other ICSC private or public affiliates.
• Their scientific programs must be agreed by one or more ICSC Spokes. For each project a “principal Spoke” is identified.
  • When a Spoke is identified as the principal Spoke for a given project, that is the Spoke where most of the project activities take place.
  • A Spoke is responsible for reporting on the progress of all innovation projects that refer to it as principal Spoke.
• Inter-spoke projects are possible. In this case, the project activities are split between the principal Spoke and other participating Spokes.
• A private ICSC affiliate participating to an innovation project in a Spoke becomes formally part of that Spoke through the signature of a Spoke/Affiliate agreement.

You may query the Innovation Funds Database using this form.

Through this database it is also possible to:

• view the mapping between ICSC Partners and Spokes.
• search for keywords in the title or abstract of projects approved in Innovation Funds.
• generate network connection graphs, showing how ICSC partners have established relationships among themselves through the Innovation Fund projects.

Wordcloud image highlighting the most common words found in the abstracts of the Innovation Fund projects.