The LAUNCH activity covers the deployment and management of the Launch programme. LAUNCH uses the information identified by the “enabling technologies and manufacturing applications radar” to develop innovation hotspots that will guide innovation, education, and business creation activities. This programme involves collecting and curating data on technologies and manufacturing applications, analyzing the data to identify hotspots, contrasting the hotspots identified with EIT Manufacturing and European value chain capabilities, and proposing innovation hotspots to the KIC’s management team and partners.