Italian accelerator offers its expertise and technology as incubator in the form of service agreement

Annotation

Italian accelerator active in the Social Innovation field, addressing social issues with entrepreneurial approach through creation of sustainable companies with a specific focus on EHealth sector, is looking for partners interested in its services as incubator. Main target markets are: health, agro-food, environment and energy, culture and arts, social inclusion. The accelerator is looking for long term cooperation in the form of service agreement.

Offer description

Italian accelerator active in the social innovation field and addressing social issues with entrepreneurial approach through creation of social and sustainable companies, from startup phase to international scale up is looking for partners interested in its services as incubator. Target market segments are: health, agro-food, environment and energy, culture and arts, social inclusion. The incubator was created in 2014 and acts on worldwide basis. It has already ongoing collaboration with universities, companies and institution from UK, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, USA, Middle East and Africa. The company currently supports more than 60 startups, 30 of which are active in the Life Sciences sector. The organisation is focusing mainly on eHealth projects, including web communities, apps, wearable devices, cloud services, patient/caregiver communities, bio sensoring. The accelerator works mainly using web and cloud technologies, leveraging current web and mobile technologies to enable people and competences to connect and share their skills. The accelerator is offering its expertise in mentoring and coaching scheme, knowledge transfer and co-creation of research-business collaboration for research, technical and European projects. Main objectives of the incubators are: • leveraging cloud technologies to promote collaboration among enterprises, universities, research centres and professionals to share knowledge and build cooperation project; • offering co-creation, mentoring and coaching scheme activities based on cloud technologies in order to ease co-operation between universities, civil society organizations, third sector professionals and social startups, and particularly companies of any field and size; • sharing its competences and skills in the field of eHealth in order to build technological and research project with the help of its specific cloud technologies. The organisation is willing to start a collaboration with interested start up companies in the form of services agreement.

Innovations and advantages

The accelerator can fasten the share of skills and competences by leveraging web and cloud technologies. These specific technologies are used to empower synergies between all societal stakeholders (profit or non profit, private or public) in order to build common value using a multi-stakeholder strategy. This led them to create a successful international network by connecting universities, corporations, third sector associations, city Mayors, central and regional institution. Due to this methodology the accelerator has already connected more than 60 project teams in less than 2 years, enabling their skills’ growth, giving concrete support in the development of companies. Moreover this organisation can provide specific mentoring and coaching scheme with the collaboration of professionals. Moreover the accelerator grants specific services for EHealth products and services by deploying eHealth technologies from ground up, leveraging the mass adoption with ease of use and light pricing, in order to obtain large user consensus on one side and pushing ground-up for certifications and wider adoption into health systems.

Technology keywords

01003025 Internet of Things
01004001 Applications for Health
06001 Medicine, Human Health
11001 Socio-economic models, economic aspects
11002 Education and Training

Market application codes

05007006 Computer-aided diagnosis and therapy
05007007 Other medical/health related (not elsewhere classified)
05010002 Cognitive aid
09003007 Other services (not elsewhere classified)

Profile date

16.03.2019