From Canvas to Candy Managing the Deal Flow of Innovation

The goal of this paper is to introduce a new toolkit for managing the deal flow of innovation of any organization (public or private). Candy Innovation Model organizes the process of innovation in four phases: Challenges, Ideas, Prototyping and Scalability, with Filters between phases that analyze the impact and resources needed.Candy Innovation Model is a tool that allows any company or institution to organize the innovation managing challenges, stimulating ideas, developing prototypes and validating the local and the global scalability. The Model combine new and existing methods as DesignThinking, Business Model Canvas and Lean Model.Ecosystems of Innovation, such as Science Parks and Areas of Innovation, can use and provide this tool to tenants in order to promote the effective innovation inside the organizations andthe effective interconnection with the Quadruple Helix Agents (Government, Universities,Industry and Demand) in the different phases. In this paper are included several innovation environments that could be applied for the development of the functions of Candy Innovation Model.