Project description
Linking academia and industry to foster next-gen, deep-tech start-ups and spin-offs
Europe is home to world-class research institutions and an abundance of science, technology, engineering and maths graduates. Yet, current gaps in the innovation landscape between academia and industry inhibit the EU from fully realising its innovation and economic potential. To address this, the EU-funded BridgeTTe project aims to establish strategic collaboration networks between academia and enterprises that will foster deep-tech start-ups and spin-offs. Particular focus will be given to creating synergies between Brno University of Technology in Czechia and Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava with local, European and global markets. To do so, it will use AI-driven tools to match local academic talent with industry stakeholders, and create innovation hubs while providing university prototyping and capacity-building training programmes.
Objective
The BridgeTTe project has been designed to overcome the most critical gaps in the European innovation landscape between academia and industry that prevent them to benefit from an efficient mutual exchange and use the potential and resources. In particular, the project will address low engagement among the innovation ecosystem actors, missing entrepreneurial competences at academia and insufficient prioritisation of research topics / their links to market / enterprise / industrial needs and are slowly able to react to trends, to name some of the problems addressed.
The BridgeTTe project will do so by systemic search for local talents, strategically deploying advanced AI tools, pioneering one-of-its-kind university prototyping programs and market validation assistance, capacity-building training programme and implementing joint activities with business experts, industry clusters and excellent infrastructures from innovation hubs.
BridgeTTe will maximise the value of innovation to all by fostering synergies and connectivity of two prominent Central European academic institutions, the Brno University of Technology (BUT) and Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) to the local, European and global markets by leveraging strategic cooperation with innovation catalysts connected to enterprises (JIC and ADDSEN) and outreach to leading innovation ecosystems and infrastructures (WONDER).
BridgeTTe will empower sciencepreneurs, foremostly women, to transform local cutting-edge research into deep-tech start-ups and spin-offs with pan-European and global impact. Through establishing strategic cooperation networks between academia and enterprises, it will nurture the next generation of deep-tech start-ups and spin-offs.
The methodology of BridgeTTe connected ecosystems will be further disseminated across the EU and serve as an example worth following, foremostly in emerging innovation ecosystems of the CEE.
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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HORIZON.3.2 - European innovation ecosystems
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HORIZON.3.2.3 - Joint programmes close to innovators
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIE-2024-CONNECT-02
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61200 Brno - Medlanky
Czechia
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