Conducting research and analysis on the innovation ecosystem, including its potential needs and directions. The service allows information to be captured directly from academics and innovators, analyzed and reported. It will allow EIC beneficiaries to gain knowledge in a specific area in order to make decisions as far as investment, sectoral needs are concerned. The target group will be EIC beneficiaries and Seal of Excellence holders. The outcomes will be the gathered data on the needs of clients in the given geographic area, market and competition analysis that will support decision-making process and allow to implement more effective collaboration between the EIC beneficiaries and the business sector. The duration of the service will range between 1 month and 6 months depending on the scope of the service. The type of implementation will depend on the specific objective of the research, research methods and techniques and advancement of analyses, and will be performed with the use of research methods such as focus group interview, in-depth interviews, The Delphi Method, Interviews and Survey questionnaire interviews (PAPI, CAWI, CATI), desk research. Service performed by in-house specialists. The outcome will be the report from the survey according to the needs of the EIC beneficiary and delivered in a digital form. Online implementation.