Innovation Booster Fashion & Lifestyle
Organization Metadata
- Organization Name: Innovation Booster Fashion & Lifestyle
- Date: 4/19/2024 4:17:06 PM
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Organization Description
About us
The Innovation Booster Fashion & Lifestyle empowers operational, technological, and social innovations developed with and for the Swiss Fashion and Lifestyle sector.
Leveraging the Leading House community and network, the Innovation Booster Fashion & Lifestyle creates a unique ecosystem enabling the dissemination of radical solutions to the challenges of the sector.
How does it work
- STEP 1: INDUSTRY WORKSHOP
- Industry experts discuss and identify key themes and challenges for the Fashion & Lifestyle community
- STEP 2: LAUNCH IB CALL FOR CHALLENGES APPLICATIONS
- The IB opens a call on its online platform, focusing on themes identified during Industry Workshops
- STEP 3: APPLY TO THE IB CALL
- People from the community can submit an innovation hypothesis
- STEP 4: WORKSHOP “CHALLENGE YOUR IDEAS”
- Innovation Teams are invited to join a design thinking workshop. They re-frame and co-create their ideas
- STEP 5: SHORTLISTING SESSION
- The program jury selects the submitted ideas eligible to access the Pitch Day
- STEP 6: PITCH YOUR IDEA & GET FUNDED
- Innovation Teams pitch their ideas, and the Jury decides which projects receive funding
- STEP 7: TEST, IMPLEMENT & LEARN
- Awarded Innovation Teams execute their project, share results/ lesson learned, evaluate next steps
Our 3 pillars
- Capitalizing the Fashion & Lifestyle community to solve industry challenges/ problems;
- Managing events, research, workshops through open innovation and user-centric methods;
- Rewarding up to 10 ideas/ year (up to CHF 28k/ idea) that prove potential to change the Fashion & Lifestyle world