science-driven open innovation program [click here]

Seed4Innovation (S4I) is a tech scouting program organized by Fondazione UNIMI and the University of Milan in collaboration with Deloitte Officine Innovazione, BUGNION SpA , and CA Group . Its purpose is to accelerate the development of highly innovative solutions arising from research and to facilitate their industrial or market application.

Seed4Innovation is a science-driven open innovation program. It contributes to the development of an environment of contamination between the world of research and companies interested in enriching their technology innovation project pipeline. Through Open Innovation approaches, S4I offers access to a customer-tailored innovation development support program that increases growth opportunities through constant engagement with #business needs.

#Seed4Innovation identifies research outcomes with potential for technology transfer (innovative technologies, products, or services) in several application sectors and disciplinary fields.

The program also involves companies, such as Boehringer Ingelheim , Vertex Pharmaceuticals , Chiesi Group , STMicroelectronics , Medtronic , Sintetica , Valpharma Group , Bio4Dreams , Fondazione Golinelli , CDP Venture Capital SGR and Indaco Venture Partners . To enhance the effectiveness of #technology transfer activities, Corporate Partners signal specific needs perceived from industry and the market, as well as their interest in investing in projects that offer responses to these needs. Nevertheless, the #innovation areas of the program are not limited to the signals from Corporate Partners but embrace any application of research from the University of Milan and its Research Partners [ Ospedale Galeazzi - Sant'Ambrogio , IEO Istituto Europeo di Oncologia , Centro Cardiologico Monzino , FONDAZIONE IRCCS ISTITUTO NEUROLOGICO CARLO BESTA ] in any disciplinary field or industrial sector of potential destination - for example, but not exhaustively: pharmaceutical, medical, manufacturing, chemical, biomaterials, agriculture, veterinary, environmental and territorial management, digital and information technologies, communication.

Most importantly, only through partnership and collaboration between companies, research centres, and initiatives that accompany researchers in a process of valorisation and acceleration of their inventions, can we overcome the "valley of death" of innovation, where 90% of new ideas born in #research laboratories go lost.

S4I is aimed at:

a) Companies and investors who wish to signal specific innovation themes in relation to their corporate needs and who want to tap into the #S4I project pool.

b) Researchers, technologists, students, professors and alumni of the Università degli Studi di Milano and its Research Partners for identifying innovative solutions arising from scientific research. Research teams can involve collaborators from companies and/or from other research centers.

Indeed, Seed4Innovation is a crucial initiative for the spread, within the academic world, of the entrepreneurial mindset necessary to transform scientific discoveries into products that generate progress and wealth, both social and economic.

Info: scouting @ fondazione unimi . com

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