Twelve RAISE teams and innovative solutions at the center of the “Innovation Showcase” event of RAISE up
On Monday 28 October 2024, inside the RAISE Village at the Cisterne di Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, the first event of the RAISE up mentorship program took place, promoted by Spoke 5 of RAISE and supported by PwC Italia and I3P – “Incubatore del Politecnico di Torino”.
The Innovation Showcase was a day dedicated to innovation, with the aim of encouraging the connection between companies and researchers.
Entrepreneurs, financiers and company managers, from Liguria but also from other regions, were able to meet the groups of researchers, who are working on 12 innovative solutions, selected for the RAISE up program.
On this day, these 12 teams had the opportunity to present their innovative solutions, divided into four specific areas:
1. Design of inclusive technologies to redesign the urban experience
2. Intelligent technologies for the healthcare of the future
3. Ecorobotics at the service of the environment
4. Navigating the future: robotics and AI at the service of ports and the maritime industry
As highlighted by the spoke leader of spoke 5, Andrea Pagnin (IIT), the twelve teams were selected out of 180 and this program is a great opportunity to transform their research results into start-ups, patents and licenses.
The event achieved the expected objectives, as the project manager, Miriam Molinari, commented with satisfaction, both for the excellent turnout of participants and for the networking and creative exchange activities that took place between researchers, entrepreneurs, financiers and ecosystem players during the day. The teams “trained to tell their innovative solutions to people who are not in their sector” the day was in fact structured in two moments, during the morning the guests were accompanied to the team corners in the room to listen to the story of the posters and prototypes presented while the afternoon was dedicated to one-to-one, to evaluate in detail any joint tests, partnerships and other future activities.
An important day for RAISE up, intense and full of meetings, aimed at realizing that crucial passage from research to the market and therefore making technology transfer possible, which is one of the main objectives of Spoke 5 and the RAISE ecosystem.
After the success of this first event in the context of the Science Festival 2024, the RAISE up program will soon return with a second event open to the public, in less than a month, on November 25th.
