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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Collabwith?
Collabwith is a global platform to standardize collaboration for innovation. Our value proposal is to simplify, digitalize and accelerate the collaboration process from searching your partner to the start of your collaboration. It’s a one-stop-shop for all your needs including a search engine, request submission mechanism, negotiation forum, and our own technological legal and payment system.
How can I use Collabwith?
When you create a profile for your or your organisation, you can use Collabwith as a tool to connect with academics, startups, and organizations in one ecosystem.
What is an innovation ecosystem?
The purpose of a Collabwith Ecosystem tailored to your community is to facilitate and streamline key connections as they pertain to the specific characteristics of your sector. This platform allows members that share the same goals but come from different sectors, backgrounds, and geographic locations to overcome sector barriers and collaborate.
What can I do inside the platform?
Inside of the Collabwith Platform, you can create a profile that allows you to view and explore other profiles of professionals, academics, startups, and universities also within the Platform. You gain access to our Marketplace, where you can search for and upload your own opportunities to collaborate, forge new partnerships, take advantage of new funding opportunities, etc. On the Dashboard, you can use expert-made Collabwith training modules and resources to better facilitate innovation in your organisation and partnerships.
Do you have examples of others using the platform?
Over 1500 academics, startups, innovation professionals and organizations are using Collabwith for collaboration to improve their innovation and their organizations, including 6 large-scale ecosystem platforms.
How are you helping your customers with your consulting?
Customers that recieve individualized consulting, have access to Collabwith workshops, or use our SaaS White Label Platform all recieve high-level and state-of-the-art advice and knowledge for organizational decision making. This includes working step-by-step with our consultants to create clear frameworks and canvases, as well as collaboration and innovation strategy roadmaps (including reports for technology, startups and research).
What are you offer me?
Beyond our consulting, workshops, and SaaS White Label Platform services, we can offer you a Collabwith membership at four different levels : A Free Membership gives you access to a profile, a personalised Dashboard, our Marketplace, network directories, and email notifications of funding opportunities ; A Premium Individual Membership allows you to create an unlimited number of Collaboration Requests, design your own network of individuals and opportunities, and special Marketplace and Directory functionalities ; An Organization Membership allows for you and your whole team to benefit from Premium Individual Membership benefits ; And an Ecosystem Membership is a new offer that allows universities or established ecosystems to create a unique digital environment to connect researchers and academia with industry organizations and startups, alongside key perks such as resource and workshop creation.
How much cost your services?
Joining Collabwith with a basic membership is completely free! A Premium Individual Membership has a minimal duration of 12 months that can be paid in a 490€/year or 49€/month payment, and Organizational Memberships cost 4900€/year or 490€/month. These prices do include VAT 21%. For the Ecosystem Membership and our services, please schedule a call with us so we can give you a direct quote depending on your needs and requirements.
How exactly does the platform work?
Collabwith is a platform thats purpose, at its core, is to connect people that otherwise would have difficulty meeting and organizing a collaboration, and facilitate the more challenging aspects of their partnerships to ultimately produce more innovative projects. The platform allows you to create your profile with your background and what expertise, technologies, or other facets you are either offering or looking for, which you can advertise on our public Marketplace. Using the search engine, you can also explore opportunities other people have offered or are searching for, and coordinate a partnership via our request submission mechanism, negotiation forum, and technological legal and payment system so that both parties feel secure. Our Directory search engine also allows for you to search for specific professionals, academics, startups, and universities.
How can I update my profile?
If you are logged into your profile on the Collabwith Platform, hit the button in the upper right-hand corner of your screen on the Navigation Bar that says ‘Hi. [Your Name]’. Once you see your profile in front of you, you are able to scroll down and update any elements of your profile that you wish.
What are the pricing options or models?
Joining Collabwith with a basic membership is completely free! A Premium Individual Membership has a minimal duration of 12 months that can be paid in a 490€/year or 49€/month payment, and Organizational Memberships cost 4900€/year or 490€/month. These prices do include VAT 21%. For the Ecosystem Membership and our services, please schedule a call with us so we can give you a direct quote depending on your needs and requirements.
How are the workshops working?
Our workshops are specialized trainings created by our team of psychology and business experts to create effective and long term collaborations. Our methodology is based on 15 years of experience in innovation and collaboration and 30 years of experience in psychology and emotional intelligence. If you are unsure about joining a full workshop, you can begin by signing up for free monthly resources and exercises on our website. Our existing workshop portfolio includes : Entrepreneurship with Emotional Intelligence, Collaboration x Innovation with the Collaboration Canvas, Successful Collaboration between Academia-University-Startups, High Performing Teams for Collaboration, Innovation Ecosystems, Innovation Leadership, Innovation Community, Emotional Intelligence for Artificial Intelligence, Innovation Procurement, Selling Innovation, University Ventures, Emotional Intelligence for Learning & Teaching, How to be ready for the Future, How to understand your Needs for Innovation, How to Calculate the Budget for Innovation, and How to prepare and lead an EU Grant Proposal.
Is there a minimum period for the membership?
The basic membership is free and has no minimum period, however the Premium Individual Membership and Organizational Memberships have a minimum period of 12 months.