INNOMINE GROUP KFT

Their core work

Innomine Group is a Budapest-based innovation consultancy that helps EU-funded research results reach the market. They specialize in technology transfer services — training researchers on commercialization, mentoring innovators through licensing and spin-off processes, and connecting SMEs with alternative finance and blockchain-based solutions. Their work spans the gap between lab results and business adoption, providing support services like the EU's Innovation Radar and SME capacity-building programs.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their earlier projects (2017–2018), Innomine focused on mapping and categorizing EU-funded innovations through the Innovation Radar, supporting Startup Europe, and helping innovators access corporate investment and alternative finance. By 2019, their focus shifted toward blockchain/DLT adoption for SMEs and bringing innovation services into new domains like Open Science and EOSC. The thread connecting both periods is consistent: helping research results find commercial pathways — but the tools and domains have expanded.

Moving from pure innovation advisory toward technology-specific support (blockchain, EOSC), suggesting they are building deeper technical delivery capabilities alongside their consulting strengths.

How they like to work

Innomine always participates as a partner, never as a coordinator — they are a service provider that plugs into larger consortia rather than leading them. With 69 unique partners across 23 countries in just 6 projects, they consistently join large, diverse consortia (averaging 11+ partners per project). This makes them easy to work with: they know how to deliver a defined work package within a big team without needing to steer the ship.

Broad European network spanning 69 partners across 23 countries — remarkably wide for a 6-project portfolio. This breadth comes from joining large CSA and RIA consortia, giving them connections across most of the EU research landscape.

What sets them apart

Innomine fills a specific niche: they are the team you bring in to handle commercialization, training, and business outreach within a research consortium. Unlike research institutes that occasionally do dissemination, this is their core business — they do nothing but innovation support services. For consortium builders, they offer a ready-made work package partner for exploitation, training, and SME engagement activities.

Highlights from their portfolio

• NEANIAS
  Their largest grant (EUR 229K) and a move into scientific infrastructure — applying innovation and business support to EOSC services for atmosphere, underwater, and space research.
• BLOCKCHERS
  Hands-on blockchain pilot program for traditional SMEs, combining DLT technology with Innomine's SME mentoring expertise in a practical adoption context.
• IRSUS
  Direct support services for the EU's Innovation Radar — classifying and supporting innovators from H2020/FP7/CIP programs at scale.