AI Hub Tampere is a new artificial intelligence research centre hosted by Tampere University and funded by public instruments. The centre organises workshops, helpdesk sessions, experimental piloting and other support for adopting artificial intelligence in local companies. The principle is to make AI easy to reach, affordable with free of charge services, neutral and equal for all. The centre is part of a nationwide network of AI centres that is currently being built. Linköping has a comparable community: Linköping AI.

Aalborg University has introduced an in-house Proof of Concept scheme.

An Erasmus+ KA2 project coordinated by the University of Trento aiming at emphasising the crucial role of Higher Education Institutions in boosting innovation, with an approach deeply rooted in the principle of partnership and with a novel focus on interdisciplinary and intersectoral education.

An example of network-based collaboration for open innovation from Aveiro: The “Creative Science Park”, stimulates and manages flows of knowledge and technology between the scientific and technological system, the business sector and national and international markets, enhancing the creation and growth of companies based on innovation and strengthening regional competitiveness.

CLab Trento is a cross-disciplinary laboratory aimed at fostering academic education on soft skills, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. It is composed by a co-work space, a stimulating environment which is designed to encourage the adoption of an entrepreneurial mindset through the principles of proactive problem-solving and learning by doing. The education formats, which are designed so to reduce the gap between the academic world and innovation in the real world, leverage the diversity in the background of the students and benefit from the expertise of teachers, mentors, startuppers, professionals and investors from the local and national ecosystem

Collaboration between research institutions and industry with co-funding mechanisms works well in regional funded projects in Lithuania, Kaunas University of Technology is part of "Intelektas"; "SmartInvest LT”.

Dublin City University developed a License Express Scheme to simplify and speed up the time it takes to conclude a licence.

Dublin City University hosts a Business Matchmaker and Research Showcase event, providing an opportunity for companies to meet face-to-face with experts at DCU who are actively engaged in research that has applications across many industry sectors.

Early idea testing and development by pre-start-ups and research teams can be hard. Tampere University’s Impact Canvas is a useful tool to develop impact. The method can also be used when there are more mature research results or when research results are already deployed.

Hub Innovazione Trentino promotes the results of research and innovation in the Trentino system in order to support the development of the local economy. The University of Trento is one if its stakeholders.

Tampere University has appointed four Industry Professors to enrich education and foster university-industry collaborations.

The Aveiro Region Business Incubator is a regional network of municipal and university’s incubation centres to promote local entrepreneurship and social innovation.

The Go-Lab project and its successor Next-Lab, coordinated by the University of Twente, offer remote and virtual online laboratories for large-scale use in education. The GO-GA project will make the platform available in Africa.

The Horizon 2020-funded project "ENviSION", of which the Kaunas University of Technology is a partner of, is an example of open innovation, including transdisciplinary considerations.

The Italian Node of EIT Digital that clusters public and private organisations that are driving the digital innovation and transformation in Italy.

The Problem Based Learning-pedagogical model of Aalborg University has become both nationally and internationally recognised by universities, researchers and students as an advanced and efficient learning model for cooperating with the business community and help students with an entrepreneurial mindset.

The Santaka Valley at Kaunas University of Technology is an integrated science, study and business centre for public and private research, knowledge-intensive businesses, and provides added-value services.

The School of Innovation aims at stimulating innovative and creative approaches to the solutions of problems in different disciplinary fields. It takes a revolutionary approach to multidisciplinary university education by providing a unique offer of highly practical and interactive set of course, laboratories and case studies, which can be mainly chosen according to one’s interests and professional aspirations.

The Science & Innovation Hub of Aalborg University is a prominent centre for interdisciplinary research, innovation, entrepreneurship, talent development and business development.

The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona is part of the Catalonian Innovation Triangle. This Triangle must become one of the main European corridors for business and technical excellence, knowledge and quality of life.

The University of Aveiro has developed an intensive program of industry internships within the region, engaging students and faculty with real-life industry challenges, with more than 10% of the students enrolling in curricular internships every year.

The annual event "TECHNORAMA" of Kaunas University of Technology is a matchmaking event between inventors and investors.