Big Innovation Centre,BIC
BIC is a business-backed innovation hub that provides research and consulting services for big companies and public bodies to address shared economic challenges and improve their innovative capabilities. Launched in September 2011, the centre aims to build a global innovation hub by 2025, create great companies, and make the world more purposeful and inclusive through the enormous potential of technology, creativity and innovation. It also gathers transnational corporations, government and world class universities, tries to promote innovation and make best use of intellectual property, in particular through co-creating open innovation ecosystems and communities, and digital platforms with opportunities.