Analytical reports

The GenerationS Corporate Accelerator presents the first practical guide for corporate innovation development. The guidebook consists of the following parts:

• learning the existing types of corporate innovation and defining what “innovation” means for your company;
• developing innovation: the starting point;
• what is the innovation strategy in business and what factors need to be taken into account when developing it;
• types of organizational models of innovation management and how to define a model that would suit a certain company.

Of course there is no universal “recipe” for corporate innovation, and success depends on many factors, both external and internal. However, we collected the most successful practices, methods and frameworks for handling innovation that have proven to be effective. Studying them will be a great contribution to the initial stage of innovation implementation and help develop a vision and a strategy for managing innovation at a corporation.

GenerationS corporate accelerator by RVC is summing up the results of the cooperation with the community of its alumni. Since 2013, more than 16,000 applications from Russian and foreign startups have been submitted for participation in accelerator programs, and 500 projects have successfully passed the acceleration. Startups presented over 400 solutions and signed more than 100 business contracts. Total amount of investments in GenerationS alumni projects reached more than 9 billion rubles, where 65% came from foreign investors.

The report presents the mechanisms for adapting innovation processes in corporations in the context of COVID-19 and demonstrates technologies and solutions that can be applied to meet current challenges. Innovation can become the link in the company that will help to survive the crisis and open up opportunities for identification, analysis and testing. new products and processes. The use of new technologies and openness to innovation can be a decisive factor in staying ahead of the competition in the future.

In 2019, GenerationS also received well-deserved recognition - it entered the top 5 best state accelerators in the world according to research by the analytical company UBI Global. During the year, joint projects were launched with companies from completely different areas: energy, transport industry, pharmaceutical industry and FMCG.

More than 800 applications from startups were received as part of the acceleration selection. More than 50 startups passed all stages of the accelerator and were selected by partners to further study the possibility of joint launch of pilot projects. For 7 years of GenerationS existence, more than 70 Accelerator Alumni have been able to scale their business not only in Russia, but also abroad.

Now the accelerator team aims to ensure that GenerationS functioned as a platform allowing corporations and startups to maximize effectively interact and achieve high results: by the number joint projects, financial revenue and other indicators.