[...] * Ensure long-term planning combined with open evaluation and acceptance of failure: ecosystems grow organically over time. 4/5 year is the minimum timespan needed to see results. Evaluation is necessary, but results can’t be expected before 4/5 years and key performance indicators should be designed at the strategic level. Failure should be “normal” at the project level, indeed a low rate of project failure could be seen not as a success but as a failure indicator of the programme, because it could reveal the lack of truly innovative projects. Funders should also be evaluated by the recipients, through a sort of “rateyourfunders.com” approach, where different criteria should be applied (speed of response, burocratic load, flexibility in the system, value added offered by the programme in terms of connection…).