InnovationLabs’, or ‘Innovatielabs’ in Dutch, was an open funding call in 2021 and 2022 that sought to support the cultural and creative sectors in trying out innovative and experimental projects. On top of financial support, the selected projects were offered coaching and skills development. A key part of the initiative was a research trajectory, where knowledge of innovation processes and models were shared by researchers, and these researchers then followed the projects to generate new insights into how to tackle some of the complex problems in the cultural and creative industries.