Ferrara Technopole is one of the access points to the whole regional innovation system.
Our main tasks are:
- Welcome Office and contact point to entrepreneurs in order to understand their needs address them to the right research group / competences
- Provision of skills, facilities and resources of the Technopole to the business sector
- Finding scientific partners to develop European projects and new start-ups
- Applied research: collaborative research or commissioned research
- Availability of infrastructures, equipment, certification and audit tests, scientific validations
- Organization of seminars, conferences, round tables, workshops, visits for entrepreneurs and investors, hosting delegations, B2B meeting, participation to sector fairs
- Organization of training courses also tailored made, for enterprises’ needs, on specific topics
- Identification of funding opportunities for driven enterprises
- Development of new contacts between the University and the companies for technological transfer projects
- Innovative collaboration activities and projects (also EU funded) between our Labs and enterprises
- Scouting and mapping of our available research and technologies and problem solving
- Patents analysis and licensing
- Access to incubators, support to start-ups and new companies
