Innovation Agency

INNOVATION AGENCY

Agent of change that promotes the innovation development capabilities of the Principality of Andorra, contributing to sustainable economic development, bringing talent and innovation to the different actors and sectors that configure our country's ecosystem.

The actions developed there allow us to create connections and synergies with international trends through collaborations that generate new opportunities for both the public and private sectors, educational institutions, businesses and entrepreneurs, and our citizens.

The main activities promoted by the Agency are:

Promote and divulge open innovation through challenges, co-creation activities and design of ideas or hackathons, organized by different collaborators promoting teamwork and the generation of ideas.

Promote projects in the framework of the Andorra Living Lab, supporting the implementation of new products/services and creating agile pilot test environments on a national scale.

Boost and establish synergies in the entrepreneurial and startups ecosystem by supporting entrepreneurs in the phases of iteration, testing, validation and improvement before delivery to the end users.

Establish bidirectional synergies with national and international partners in order to foment the exchange of knowledge and create opportunities for social and economic development.

Contribute to the country's strategic sectors to position Andorra as a reference through innovation.
     - Sports and Mountain
     - Education
     - Health

Andorra Living Lab

A country-wide open innovation ecosystem that promotes the coordination, research, design and validation of innovation projects, developing a key environment for experimentation and development of new services, products and infrastructures, in real environments connected to virtual communities. Including social and technological dimensions simultaneously, investigating how users interact with new technologies, but also to make users familiar with them.

An environment in where businesses, public authorities, academia and citizens work together to create, prototype, validate and test new services, businesses, markets and technologies in real-life contexts, such as cities, city regions, rural areas, as well as virtual collaboration in networks between public and private players. Enabling network learning and work, making it very attractive to many users, and generating very interesting dynamics.

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Projects

Food Waste in Andorra, Insight and Transformation

Analysis and modeling of food waste data in collaboration with the Department of Environment and Sustainability of the Government of Andorra and the MIT Media Lab.

Sports Innovation

We contribute in the sports sectors of the country in order to position Andorra as a reference, through innovation.

Extended Sensoring

Use of different measurement systems for a holistic understanding of our environment. Project in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab

National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Strategy

Project of transformation of the country that works between the private and public sector, research and innovation institutions, as well as the citizens