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JOIN&GROW

Cooperation means success

Open innovation

SWARCO JOIN&GROW offers clients and partners a platform for joint product and process development for new applications in the relevant target markets.

Collaborative product development has become routine in companies.

Globalization, faster development cycles and the increasing number of product features are a motivation to involve more partners in product and process development. The growing complexity of products and their development also leads companies to increasingly rely on cooperation and knowledge transfer in order to meet rising market expectations which they can no longer fulfil on their own.

Nowadays, relevant market players value cooperation and communication.

What are we looking for?

SWARCO JOIN&GROW looks for suitable synergy effects with individual companies, corporations, inventors, universities, start-ups, research institutes, NGOs, ...

It is a platform for innovations in the following business segments:

  • Micro glass beads as
    • reinforcement material for plastics
    • fillers for building materials
    • fillers for adhesives
    • fillers for paints, varnishes and coatings
    • reinforcement material for 3D printed materials
    • functional pigments made of glass for many applications (enhancing optical, chemical, physical and mechanical properties)
    • blasting media for cleaning or surface treatments
  • Special glass as a filler, pigment, or reinforcement material
  • Rounded raw materials as fillers, pigments or reinforcement materials

For Start-Ups

Make your innovation visible

SWARCO JOIN&GROW is the innovation platform for founders and start-ups.

Finding the right partners for your founding project is no easy task, but it is a decisive factor in your entrepreneurial success.

Start-ups often lack human resources, experience and knowledge of how to market innovation successfully. Young companies can struggle to realize their ideas as they do not have a long history of success, and their financial resources and, in particular, their access to markets are limited. And yet, more than ever, our economy depends on groundbreaking ideas and future-oriented innovations.

SWARCO JOIN&GROW has the right team to support young entrepreneurs and innovative minds as they set out to realize their ideas. As part of a JOIN&GROW cooperation, SWARCO can play a variety of roles, from purely providing information to proactively contributing to development and offering professional marketing services.

  • Possibilities for long-term and strategic cooperation
  • Accelerated growth
  • Use of SWARCO’s available resources 
    • (machines, labs, processes, consulting, etc.)
  • Bundling of target groups and joint activities to open up and cultivate new markets
  • Possibility of financial support or participation
  • Growth opportunities and internationalization
  • Access to the market experience of a global player

BECOME A JOIN&GROW PARTNER!

Do you have an idea?

Then, work together with SWARCO JOIN&GROW on UNIVERSAL EFFICIENCY in all areas!

Submit your idea

FAQs

What is SWARCO JOIN&GROW?

SWARCO JOIN&GROW offers clients and partners a platform for joint product and process development for new applications in the relevant target markets.

You can submit innovative ideas for products, cooperation in technology or in opening up new markets, services, or your ready-to-market product idea. Anything that caters to the needs of our clients – potential or actual – along our overall value chain can be submitted.

  • New application ideas for existing SWARCO products
  • Innovations in production processes within the industry/at SWARCO
  • Applications of special glass (round or granular)
  • Applications of rounded particles made from different raw materials
  • Ideas, projects and innovations based on confidential information
  • Confidential information and documents
  • Ideas, projects and innovations that are not yours, and which infringe on someone’s IP rights

From academic institutions, universities, research institutes and NGOs to start-ups and small enterprises all the way to corporations, whether they have a client or supplier relationship with SWARCO or not.

Ideas can be submitted through the SWARCO website. If you do not want to submit your idea and prefer to start by talking to one of our experts, that is also a possibility.

In order to understand and evaluate your idea, we need a short but convincing description of your idea. Please upload it in a PDF format along with the submission form.

Your description should contain:

  • A description of the innovation
  • What makes this innovation unique?
  • What is new in this innovation?
  • What is the benefit for the customer compared with existing solutions?
  • How are IP rights distributed?
  • What is the current status of your idea/project? Has some preparatory work been carried out?

When making your submission, you can attach explanatory documentation to provide our experts with additional information (e.g. photos, technical drawings, patent information, test reports, etc.).

Please note that all documents provided as part of your submission will be considered non-confidential and are not subject to any obligation of confidentiality. If any document is labelled as confidential, secret or similar, we will not take it into account. In that case, we will not be able to process your submission further, and we will have no choice but to reject it.

No, your submission will not be subject to any obligation of confidentiality. Please note that all documents provided as part of your submission will be considered non-confidential and are not subject to any obligation of confidentiality. If any document is labelled as confidential, secret or similar, we will not take it into account. In that case, we will not be able to process your submission further, and we will have no choice but to reject it.

If you want to speak with our experts before making your submission, please indicate this on the submission form. If preliminary discussions result in an interest to continue and it becomes necessary to enter into a non-disclosure agreement, this is something we can discuss.

Yes, but your submission has to be approved through our evaluation process first. Then, further phone calls, or online or in-person presentations can be arranged.

The evaluation process can take anywhere from 2 to 6 weeks. Once it has been completed, we will contact you with the result. If further questions arise in the meantime, one of our experts will contact you.

Each submission is assessed by a JOIN&GROW project manager and forwarded to an expert from the relevant industrial area. The expert checks the idea against technical, economic, strategic and ecological criteria, and decides to approve or reject it together with an internal idea committee. This process can take anywhere from 2 to 6 weeks. If further questions arise in the meantime, one of our experts will contact you.

The decision to admit an idea into the JOIN&GROW programme is taken by an expert and the internal idea committee. If the evaluation results in a positive decision, we will let you know and send you the related information, and an expert will contact you by email or call you to discuss the next steps. These are individually tailored to the resulting project that can be set up in each particular case.

The resulting project or the next steps of a business cooperation can be quite varied in nature – from cooperating on product development, a joint consortium for a funded project, licensing a product idea or signing a supply contract to engaging in strategic cooperation or other options. There are many possibilities that can be considered.

The decision to admit an idea into the JOIN&GROW programme is taken by an expert and the internal idea committee. If the evaluation and the corresponding decision are negative, we will let you know and provide you with a short justification. However, we also reserve the right to reject a submission without justification.

  • The idea is not adapted to the business segments that SWARCO Indusferica is operating in.
  • The idea is not new and already known. 
  • We already have our own project or a project with another partner or partners in this particular area.
  • There could be a potential infringement of proprietary rights, or such infringement has not clearly been ruled out.
  • The idea’s potential is not compatible with what is envisioned in our strategic business plans.
  • The idea is at odds with our company values.

However, we also reserve the right to reject a submission without justification.

Ideas for basic scientific research

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