The pursuit of sustainability pushes traditional innovation to its limits. ​Enter AVL Creators Co-Lab: an ecosystem designed to accelerate co-innovation across industries. Join us to innovate alongside experts, driving fast collaboration and jointly defined business ideas.​

Climate change, global re-polarization, and digital transformation demand faster innovation. Traditional methods fall short, omitting key players and causing delays. Creators Co-Lab connects companies across the value chain, providing tools to make ideas "acceleration ready“. Our approach fosters open exchange and binding commitment to create shared value.​

• Clear output: Acceleration readiness​
  • ​​​​​​​Intercompany team​
  • A joint business idea to develop​
  • Business plan & roadmap to success​
  • Corporate board pitch​
  • Overcoming internal hurdles
• Frequent collaboration rounds with​ specific focus, which companies can join
• Sand box and test bed for corporate collaborative innovation
• An ecosystem built to connect companies and deliver tangible results​
• The Creators Co-Lab Cultural and Practical Duties will set the expectations, rules, rights and duties for our interactions​
• Various forms of engagement as Producers or Consumers. From Explorers and Pioneers to Ambassadors and even Co-Host.​
• Self-sustaining ecosystem with its own currency, to facilitate participation​
• Focus on sustainable principles. Environmental, Social and Economic​

That's how we collaborate in our innovation ecosystem

• We believe in a collaborative and open innovation ecosystem where all participants work together towards common goals.
• We are forward-thinking and creative, constantly seeking new ways to solve problems and drive innovation.
• Our focus is on problem-focused innovation, finding solutions to real-world challenges. We prioritize acting fully compliant with laws and regulations, ensuring ethical practices in all our endeavors.
• We are responsible and responsive to feedback, constantly seeking to improve and grow our ecosystem.
• We act ecosystem-centric instead of company-driven, prioritizing the collective success over individual achievements.
• Communication is key in our ecosystem, with company names being public while groups and topics remain internal unless mutually agreed otherwise.
• We are committed to participation, interaction, and constructive change, using agile methodologies to drive progress.
• Trust is essential in our ecosystem, with a belief in the deciding power of the group and a commitment to expert involvement where required.
• We value constructive feedback, appreciate diverse perspectives, and are always striving for correct, reliable, and business-oriented outcomes.

Scouts are initial key topic workshop participants that have the possibility of interacting with people already in the Ideation Phase and get a sneak peek into what the ecosystem has to offer.

Explorers are participants at the beginning of their journey within the ecosystem. They have access to ideation and use-case exploration workshops.

Pioneers are actively developing their business concepts after the ideation phase, developing use-cases while collaborating with other Pioneers, with a proactive approach of turning ideas into viable ventures.

Collaboration within the Creators Co-Lab ecosystem is based on the principles and mindset of open innovation.

A crucial step in open co-innovation is making a company's specific problem accessible to a group of collaborators. This requires using jargon-free language and providing a context-free problem description. As a result, context-free and scalable solutions are developed iteratively. These solutions can later be recontextualized and implemented in the unique contexts of the contributing partners and beyond.

Creators Co-Lab's process is tailored to leverage the power of open innovation, utilizing a well-defined set of methods and an ecosystem of leading minds.

We are in the middle of the current scouting phase. Here are some key figures of the initial key topic workshops in July 2024.