Politecnico di Milano's Switch2Product Innovation Opens to the Bocconi Community

THE EFFECTS OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO UNIVERSITIES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONTINUE TO UNFOLD. UP FOR GRABS A PROGRAM FOR BUSINESS ACCELERATION AND FUNDS FOR TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

The Bocconi-Politecnico di Milano collaboration in entrepreneurship and startups development goes one step further, awaiting the joint event "Matching Business, Developing Talent" on 26 November at Borsa Italiana.
 
For the first time, in fact, students, researchers, professors and alumni from Bocconi University will be able to participate in Switch2Product Innovation Challenge, the acceleration program organized by PoliHub, Politecnico’s Technology Transfer Office (TTO), and Deloitte's Officine Innovazione.
 
The program promotes new solutions, technologies and business ideas with the aim of strengthening research technological transfer and developing new entrepreneurship.
 
Accessing Switch2Product means consolidating an innovative idea, assessing its impact, receiving patent support and bringing it to market.
 
The selected projects will access a path of entrepreneurial and technological training and up to 15 of them will enter a full-blown program of entrepreneurial acceleration, with a total prize of €210,000 for the activities of technology development & validation.
 
This initiative is one of the effects of the agreement announced by the Rectors of the two universities last November.

by Fabio Todesco