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The University provides support to professors and researchers in the activities concerning patent licensing, intellectual property valorisation and the creation of new spin-off companies. It also takes care of overseeing research activities and third party service provisions for external companies and institutions, as well as overseeing financial and entrepreneurial liaisons.

You may find below the guidelines for patent licensing and setting up spin-off (or spin-out) and start-up companies of the University of Trieste:

 A "CALL FOR IDEAS" was published online to fund project ideas developed by professors and researchers of the University that can actually impact the market and the companies of the area, developed within the PNRR project “iNEST. Interconnected Nord-Est Innovation Ecosystem”.

The call consisted of two separated phases.

  • the first phase, in which the companies were meant to propose research trajectories, ended on September 15th 2024;
  • the second phase, in which research groups consisting of professors and researchers of the University are meant to send their own project ideas, consistently with the research trajectories proposed by the companies, ended on November 1st 2024.

To receive information about the call it is possible to contact the Tech Transfer Office at ilo@amm.units.it.

  • The official ranking for the second phase of the call is now online, available below along with other relevant documents.

A CALL FOR THE FUNDING OF PROOF OF CONCEPT (PoC) PROJECTS was published online, with the aim of selecting two of the University's patent titles and increasing their TRL (Technology Readiness Level).

Considering the challenge that Italian universities face in effectively transferring their patents to the production system, it is essential to bring inventions to a level of development that arouses the tangible interest of companies or pushes the researcher to found a spin-off. This call, funded by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region through Regional Law 2/2011, art. 4, paragraph 2, letters a), b), c) and d bis) - "Funding to the regional university system", has the ultimate objective of increasing the impact of university technologies through pre-industrial development activities of the Proof of Concept type.

Interested parties, i.e. inventors of eligible patents, must send their project proposals only and exclusively to the ilo@amm.units.it address by 26.03.2024 using the form for the submission of the project proposal.

Bando POC 2024
Ranking
Patent Licensing
The University manages the licensing of patents, chiefly through the stipulation of licence agreements.
Spin-Offs
The University supports new entrepreneurial initiatives in the form of spin-offs.
Start-Ups
The start-ups of the University of Trieste are entrepreneurial initiatives whose shares are normally not owned by the university, created by young people emerging from its academical enivornment.
Business Relations
The University works as liaison in the development of an active academical presence in tech transfer activities with other institutions as well as companies.

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