2. What services do innovation clusters provide?

Innovation clusters offer services for :

• complete your knowledge of your future customers' uses;

• Position yourself in relation to the competition;

• Specify the need you are seeking to meet with your solution;

• usefully reduce your project to a scope of ambition that is both promising and value-creating;

• define the functional specifications for your product or service;

• refine the development and fine-tuning of your innovation project;

• carry out real-life tests with your future customers;

• define the level of patentability of your chosen solution;

• understand the economic mechanisms...