The project is a collaborative project between VLL, Umeå University, Lycksele Municipality and Region Västerbotten. The aim of the project is to create bridges between the different actors to develop an innovation support system where more innovative products and services reach the market. The project is divided into several different sub-goals where you will work a lot with the process and approach ¿from idea to market¿. The project will initiate arenas for open innovation and make pilots and matchmaking with the region’s SME. Through the project, SME will also gain increased knowledge about building capacity for external funding and enabling innovations to be translated into new products and services. The project will be carried out with 5 different work packages/processes that are based on and are dependent on each other. The activities include the development of methods and implementation of arenas, workshops and selection of ideas and solutions, matchmaking of innovative products and services (Academy/SME) and pilot implementation. Implementation of microprojects and evaluations. Through this project, the project owner and cooperation partners want to contribute to more companies in the region growing and creating jobs and developing health, sick and elderly care. Growth will take place by creating a coherent chain from research to market, thereby reducing the time it takes for an idea to be transformed and developed into a product, service or organisational solution.