Published on 7 June 2024

Welcome to the Innovation Booster resources page.

Communications: download the manual and stamps

Are you in charge of the communications of an Innovation Booster? This is where you can find the Guidelines and all versions of the Innovation Booster stamp:

• Guidelines communications and visual presence

  • Innosuisse IB Communications Visual Presence 240117 EN Pdf

    PDF533.14 kB17 January 2024

• Download stamps

  • IB Stamp Zip

    ZIP7.88 MB17 January 2024

  • IB Stamp Animated Zip

    ZIP5.03 MB17 January 2024

  • IB Stamp Funded Projects Zip

    ZIP5.59 MB17 January 2024

Mission: browse through resources to support its principles

Mission

Innovation Booster aim to boost radical innovation in Switzerland by fostering an open innovation culture, by using agile learning cycles and by making user-centricity key in their innovation processes.

• IB mission statement

  PDF156.06 kB26 August 2024

Ressources

Innovation Booster strive to achieve this mission by following nine guiding principles. Find resources from the community of practice supporting each principle here below:

• 1. Boost radical innovation

  • What is an innovation? What is radical innovation?
  • What helps create radical innovation? Exploration and testing
  • What helps create radical Innovation? Open innovation and the mindset
  • What helps create radical innovation? Six fundamental rules of ideation
  • Are radical innovation and disruptive innovation the same?

  • Manual Radical Innovation WOW Question Pdf

    PDF597.36 kB17 April 2024

• 2. Foster open innovation

  • What is open innovation?
  • Open Innovation and IP: The benefits and how to handle IP issues
  • Open Innovation and IP: How to prepare your participation to an event
  • Why and when legal framework for open innovation?
  • How to set a legal framework for open innovation?
  • Are you operating an Innovation Booster as a Leading House? The following documents and templates (legal resources) may be helpful
  • Are you part of an Innovation Team eligible to receive funding as part of an Innovation Booster? You may find inspiring legal resources here

  • Boost collaboration with people you don’t know:

  • Bambooster Visual Manual of Work Canvas

    PDF782.99 kB3 November 2025

  • Bambooster Visual Manual of Work Checklist

    PDF639.24 kB3 November 2025

• 3. Ensure diversity

  • Understand how diverse teams drive innovation
  • Foster diversity to drive innovation

• 4. Promote a learning culture

  • Do regular retrospectives in your team to learn in loops
  • Align on resources, risks and next actions as a team
  • Test your solution idea in a build-measure-learn loop
     

• 5. Invest in problem exploration

  • Problem Tree Analysis Method And Template Pdf

    PDF610.47 kB1 May 2024

  • Understand the Jobs-to-be-Done framework to explore customer needs around a problem
  • Identify your customers' major jobs-to-be-done with a Value Proposition Canvas
  • Do interviews with your customers or users to explore their (unmet) needs

• 6. Test ideas effectively

  • Learn about the Lean-Startup approach to test ideas quickly
  • Learn what desirability, viability and feasibility (DVF) mean, why validate DVF and how to start testing DVF
  • Map the assumptions you need to test to validate your innovation idea
  • Design experiments to test the riskiest assumptions around your innovation idea
  • Choose appropriate test formats to collect evidence on your assumptions

  • Create a 90-Days-Roadmap based on the assumptions you need to test first:

  • Bambooster 90-day Roadmap Canvas

    PDF222.21 kB3 November 2025

  • Bambooster 90-day Roadmap Checklist

    PDF580.01 kB3 November 2025

  • Define Objective Key Result OKR to collect evidence about the assumptions:

  • Bambooster Objectives & Key Results - OKR Canvas

    PDF214.92 kB3 November 2025

  • Bambooster Objectives & Key Results OKR Checklist

    PDF2.07 MB3 November 2025

• 7. Make user-centricity key

  • Define the Value Proposition of your innovation idea
  • Create a Business Model Canvas based on your Value Proposition
  • Conduct interviews to collect insights from your customer

• 8. Prioritize sustainability

  • Learn about the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs
  • Assess the impact of your innovation idea on the SDGs
  • Learn about the ESG concept and how it relates to sustainable business
  • Assess your idea’s ESG responsibility level to convince investors
  • Learn about sustainable Circular Economy

• 9. Maintain good governance

  • For Innovation Booster managers: Principle of good governance

• After the Innovation Booster

  • Find the right Innosuisse support offer to continue your innovation idea

  • Formulate an Elevator Pitch for your innovation idea:

  • Bambooster Elevator Pitch Canvas

    PDF173.52 kB3 November 2025

  • Bambooster Elevator Pitch Checklist

    PDF676.80 kB3 November 2025

  • Design a Pitch Deck for your innovation idea to convince investors

  • Pitch Deck Manual and Template

    PPTX84.75 kB3 November 2025

Milestone Survey: self-assess your innovation competences

Fill in this survey to find out what competences to acquire or increase for your early-stage open innovation project: Milestone survey

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