INNOVATION CENTER MANAGEMENT - Dolibarr

Innovation Center Management transforms Dolibarr into a comprehensive platform to run a startup incubator, accelerator, technology hub or R&D laboratory. It centralizes the entire innovation life-cycle — from idea to exit — across incubated startups, structured programs, innovation and MVP projects, mentoring, funding and fund-raising, partnerships, innovation events, coworking spaces, teams and performance tracking.

The module is built natively on top of Dolibarr and never duplicates what the ERP already provides. It reuses Third Parties, Projects, Commercial Proposals, Invoices, Agenda, Users, the Document Management System (ECM) and the REST API, while adding a premium innovation-hub dashboard, a startup pipeline Kanban board and an advanced reporting engine with CSV / Excel / PDF exports.

Key figures at a glance:

·       18 business objects organized across 8 functional domains.

·       A brand-new premium dashboard (not the standard Dolibarr one) with KPI cards and DolGraph charts.

·       A drag-and-drop startup life-cycle pipeline.

·       14 advanced reports, each exportable to CSV, Excel and PDF.

·       A one-click demonstration dataset generator and remover.

·       Strict Dolibarr permissions across 10 right groups.

·       Full localization in 5 languages (EN, FR, ES, IT, DE).

The module is designed as a business layer over native Dolibarr modules. Nothing that already exists in the ERP is recreated:

3.1 Startup Management

A complete record for every incubated startup, with a KPI cockpit and one-click access to all linked objects (projects, funding, mentoring, team, performance, evaluations).

·       Company profile: name, business sector, founding year, city, country and website.

·       Life-cycle stage: ideation, MVP/prototype, incubation, acceleration, scale-up, graduated or dropped.

·       Linkage to the incubation program, the lead mentor, the account manager and a native third party.

·       Financials: valuation, annual revenue, funds raised and a 0–100 maturity score.

·       Founding team, team size and number of employees.

·       Full evolution history through status, performance KPIs and periodic evaluations.

3.2 Incubation & Acceleration Programs

·       Structured programs typed as incubation, acceleration or pre-incubation.

·       Incubation duration (months), start and end dates, and admission criteria.

·       Capacity, program fee and cohort tag.

·       Success-rate tracking and a dedicated KPI cockpit.

·       Cohort tracking: dedicated cohort objects linked to each program with year and headcount.

3.3 Innovation & R&D Projects

·       R&D, MVP, prototype and product-roadmap projects attached to startups.

·       Progress percentage, budget, start/end dates and a project lead.

·       Optional linkage to a native Dolibarr project for time-tracking and Gantt.

·       Milestones: target dates, completion dates, deliverable reference and validation flag.

·       Deliverables: due/delivered dates, a quality score and a validation flag.

3.4 Mentoring & Coaching

·       Mentor directory with expertise, company, seniority, rating and number of startups mentored.

·       Mentorship assignments linking a startup to a mentor with a focus area and total hours.

·       Mentoring sessions with date, duration, channel, progress rating and a written report.

·       Progress evaluation through per-session and per-mentorship ratings.

3.5 Funding & Investments

·       Funding records typed as grant, business angel, venture capital, loan, equity or subsidy.

·       Funding round (pre-seed, seed, series A, series B), amount and equity percentage.

·       Investor linked to a partner record; funding date and complete fund-raising history.

3.6 Partnerships

·       Partner directory: universities, companies, investors, VCs, business angels, institutions, accelerators.

·       Sector, contact person, email, phone, website and country, optionally linked to a native third party.

3.7 Innovation Events

·       Hackathons, pitch days, workshops, conferences, demo days and networking events.

·       Date, location, capacity, participant count, budget and event manager.

·       Participant registrations with role (participant, jury, speaker, mentor), check-in and pitch scoring.

3.8 Coworking Spaces

·       Space catalogue: open desks, private offices, meeting rooms, labs and event halls.

·       Capacity, floor, area (m²), monthly price and equipment.

·       Bookings linking a space to a startup with occupant, dates, purpose and price; occupancy tracking.

3.9 Teams & Performance Tracking

·       Team members per startup with role, contact details, equity percentage and founder flag.

·       Startup KPIs (MRR, active users, growth rate, runway, NPS…) with value, target, unit and period.

·       Startup evaluations with a global score, criteria and a written recommendation.

 

The module ships 18 business objects. Hub objects display a KPI cockpit and a panel of linked records; line objects belong to a parent object.

A brand-new dashboard (not the standard Dolibarr one) using a modern innovation-hub visual identity: innovation violet, digital blue, growth green and creativity orange, with futuristic gradients and a clean white layout. It is organized into KPI zones and charts.

Main KPIs:

·       Incubated startups, active startups and incubation success rate.

·       Active projects, active programs and average maturity score.

·       Total funding raised, funding this year, number of rounds and average ticket.

·       Active mentors, ongoing mentorships, mentoring hours and sessions this month.

·       Ongoing events, participants, active bookings and space occupancy rate.

·       Centre revenue (program fees + coworking) and number of partners.

Charts (DolGraph):

·       Incubated startups per month (12-month bar chart).

·       Funds raised per period (12-month bar chart).

·       Distribution by stage (pie chart).

·       Distribution by sector (pie chart).

·       An embedded preview of the startup pipeline by stage.

An interactive Kanban board visualizing the startup life-cycle. Each column is a stage (ideation, MVP, incubation, acceleration, scale-up, graduated, dropped) and each card shows the startup name, sector, funds raised and maturity score. Cards can be dragged from one stage to another; the startup status is updated automatically (graduated → closed, dropped → cancelled).

A dedicated reporting hub with 14 reports. Every report provides KPI cards, a detailed data table, direct printing and export to CSV, Excel and PDF.

An administration panel lets managers configure the module and manage the demonstration dataset:

·       Default currency.

·       Default incubation duration (months).

·       Qualified-startup maturity threshold.

·       Configurable program types, startup stages, project types, event types, funding types and mentoring parameters through the data model.

Two one-click buttons manage demonstration data:

·       Install demo data — generates a realistic dataset (startups, programs, mentors, funding, events, coworking and more).

·       Remove demo data — removes only the records generated by the module, including the native third parties, projects, proposals and invoices it created.

The module enforces strict Dolibarr permissions organized in ten right groups. Read and write are granted by default on activation so the module is immediately usable; delete and admin remain off.

Additional security measures:

·       CSRF protection through Dolibarr tokens on all create/edit/delete actions.

·       XSS protection via systematic escaping of all inputs and outputs.

·       Secure SQL (escaping and per-entity filtering) on every query.

·       Multi-entity / multi-company isolation.

·       User action logging through the native Dolibarr audit trail.

·       Full localization in English, French, Spanish, Italian and German.

·       Realistic first-activation demonstration dataset (startups, programs, projects, mentors, funding, events, coworking, bookings, sessions and evaluations).

·       Technical documentation, user guide and installation guide.

·       Distributed as module_innovation_center-1.0.zip for one-click deployment.