Digital Infrastructure for Managing Innovation Commons
Request for information (RFI): Digital Infrastructure for Managing Innovation Commons and Community Knowledge Management in Ecosystems
Request for information (RFI): Digital Infrastructure for Managing Innovation Commons and Community Knowledge Management in Ecosystems
Stiftelsen Compare an DigitalWell Arena is part of a forward-looking national project funded by Sweden’s innovation ecosystem program, “Development and Application of Innovation Commons for Strengthening Innovation Ecosystems.”
We’re now preparing to pilot a digital infrastructure that supports the management of innovation commons—shared methods, tools, knowledge, and frameworks that help innovation actors work better, together.
This RFI is an open invitation to dialogue. We’re reaching out to vendors, researchers, developers, and organizations who are either working on solutions in this space—or interested in co-developing them.
If we succeed in gathering interested parties and capturing good ideas, our ambition is to proceed with procuring a development partnership.
It’s a chance to shape the future of innovation infrastructure together.
We’re looking to pilot a flexible, scalable, and collaborative technical infrastructure that enables:
We believe this kind of infrastructure could become a backbone for innovation ecosystems, supporting everything from experimentation and learning to real-world implementation and scaling.
The primary users of the digital infrastructure are:
As public and private innovation ecosystems continue to grow in complexity and ambition, there’s a strong and increasing demand for solutions that enable shared knowledge management, cross-sector collaboration, and digital commons governance.
We believe this is an opportunity to explore and shape scalable, transferable solutions with potential relevance across regions, sectors, and international contexts for those who have the ability and ambition to commercially scale this type of solution on the market.
The infrastructure we envision must rest on core strategic principles: openness, security, integrity, digital sovereignty, and democratic values. These align with EU digital policies and are critical to building a trustworthy and future-proof foundation for innovation ecosystems.
Openness
We value open standards, transparent APIs, and modular design to ensure interoperability, adaptability, and freedom from vendor lock-in. Open-source approaches are strongly encouraged where feasible.
Security & Integrity
The solution must be secure by design, with strong protection of data, traceability of contributions, and compliance with GDPR. Integrity also means ensuring the trustworthiness and accountability of both the infrastructure and its content.
Digital Sovereignty
We prioritize solutions that safeguard European control over data, infrastructure, and AI models—favoring technologies aligned with EU legislation and public governance frameworks.
Democratic Values
Innovation infrastructures must reinforce—not undermine—democratic principles such as transparency, accountability, inclusion, and citizen empowerment. As a shared commons, the platform should enable broad participation and responsible governance of knowledge resources.
We want your input on:
We believe that the fundament and core will be the information and data, while the technologies managing, developing, enriching and making it available will, and is, changing in warp speed.
Therefore, we believe that we need a solid solution for organizing and structuring information (knowledge) and a very flexible and adaptable solution on top of that to manage and deliver user value.
We’re not looking for a one-size-fits-all platform, but rather a modular architecture that can evolve over time.
Functional capabilities we’re looking for include:
We invite you to respond with:
Please submit your response no later than 2025-06-13 by filling out this form and attach any valid documents, presentations and videos.
The information you send in will be handled with care and will not be shared outside our team without your consent.
Mail to: lars.bostrom@compare.se or thomas.wernerheim@compare.se
If the questions and answers are of general interest, we will update the webpage FAQ section to reflect that.
You can now watch a recorded Q&A session about the RFI, held in Swedish. Participants shared questions, reflections, and valuable insights related to the call. The video offers a opportunity to catch up on the discussion and learn more about the background, purpose, and future potential of the initiative.
As initiators of this effort, we are fully committed to engaging in a long-term development partnership. We are not just seeking a solution—we are seeking to co-create it.
We offer:
We are prepared to contribute actively throughout the development process, from early-stage conceptualization to piloting and future scaling. Our ambition is to not only create a working infrastructure—but to co-develop a solution with real, lasting impact.
Together, we can build something that goes beyond a technical platform: a foundation for shared innovation capacity that can grow and evolve with the needs of its users.
We see the response to this RFI as the start of a process that will likely include dialogues, workshops to gain a deeper understanding of both needs and possible solutions.
Our goal is to then, when the RFI process is concluded, procure a development partnership based on the insights that have arisen during the RFI process, whoever this is highly dependent on the outcomes of this RFI, and the possible next steps are as shown below:
Let’s shape the digital foundations of tomorrow’s innovation ecosystems—together.
During this section, we will publish questions and answers of general interest related to the RFI
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