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Ecosistema dell’innovazione regionale: le

opportunità in ambito salute

Regional Innovation Ecosystems: opportunities in health

On 15 December 2022, a workshop organised by Unimore, Art-ER and CDP Venture Capital on the oppor-
tunities offered by the innovation ecosystem for the valorisation of research results was held at the Service
Centre of the Department of Medicine and Surgery. The workshop, entitled “Opportunità di ricerca applicata
e trasferimento tecnologico in ambito salute” (Opportunities for Applied Research and Technology Transfer in
the Health Sector), was held following UNIMORE’s membership of Extend, the National Technology Transfer
Pole dedicated to the biopharmaceutical sector, which is part of an overall investment of over 55 million
euro allocated by CDP Venture Capital’s Technology Transfer Fund to create an infrastructure to support the
entire technology transfer chain Study qualification “from the laboratory to the market”. The investment plan
is to finance around 50 proof of concept and 40 start-ups through Extend’s activities and the contribution of
related vertical funds. During the event, the main initiatives related to the Regional Innovation Ecosystems
(RIE) in Health and Wellness and the opportunities in the region for start-ups and spinoffs were presented.
Supporting the development of innovative entrepreneurship of university origin is a strategy that Unimore
has adopted since 2004 and that represents a virtuous example of socio-economic spin-off on the local
and national context of academic activities. To date, 50 spin-off companies have been set up, most of which
have been housed on university premises, gaining support in terms of facilities, know-how and academic
relations thanks to the presence of university proponents. In 2019, the first student spin-off was launched.
Many junior spin-offs are gaining important investment recognition from venture capital funds, which are
increasingly attentive to the academic environment as a hotbed of new ideas that can potentially be trans-
formed into innovative products and services.

o scorso 15 dicembre 2022 si torialità e la valorizzazione della ricerca in
è svolto presso il Centro Ser- ambito Life Science – Healtech.
vizi della Facoltà di Medicina e L’iniziativa è stata ideata dall’Università di
Chirurgia un momento di ap- Modena e Reggio Emilia a seguito della nascita
Lprofondimento organizzato da e all’adesione di Unimore a Extend, il Polo
Unimore, Art-ER e CDP Venture Capital sulle Nazionale di Trasferimento Tecnologico de-
opportunità offerte dall’ecosistema dell’innovazio- dicato al settore biofarmaceutico nato su

ne per la valorizzazione dei risultati della ricerca.
iniziativa di CDP Venture Capital attraverso il suo
Il workshop dal titolo “Opportunità di ricerca fondo Technology Transfer e finalizzato a sostene-
applicata e trasferimento tecnologico in am- re l’intera filiera del trasferimento tecnologico per
bito salute”, si è svolto con l’intento di approfon- lo sviluppo di nuovi approcci terapeutici.
dire e condividere con ricercatrici e ricercatori di Il Polo Extend (https://extend-tthub.com/) si
diverse discipline scientifiche di Ateneo le inizia- posiziona come piattaforma di aggregazione
tive messe in campo per favorire l’imprendi-

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