Pelliconi Intrapreneurship Program: Building a culture of innovation
Pelliconi - the world's leading manufacturer of crown corks, metal and plastic caps for the bottling industry - has launched a brand-new Intrapreneurship Program, looking to leverage its workforce and generate ideas across departments and plant sites. The program, designed and implemented with the support of Mind the Bridge, is part of Pelliconi’s innovation strategy, including the recently established Antenna in Silicon Valley.
Desafia San Francisco 2022: applications now open!
Desafia San Francisco, the non-equity public assistance initiative addressed to Spanish startup founders with the greatest potential to successfully tackle the international market, will launch this November. Established by ICEX Spain Trade and Investment (the Government of Spain’s agency for the internationalization of businesses) and Red.es (the Government of Spain’s agency responsible for executing and deploying part of Spain’s Digital Agenda), and run this year by the advisory firm Mind the Bridge.
Immersive Technologies: Innovations in South Korea
South Korea is one of the most fertile grounds at global scale for developments in digital technologies. Factoring in the country’s advanced ICT infrastructure, pervasive high-speed internet connectivity, and the highest smart device penetration rate in the world (about 98%).In this scenario, a new trend is making its way in South Korea as the direct evolution of immersive technologies applied to a variety of industries: the “metaverse”.
HealthTech Industry: Advanced solutions and technologies brewing in South Korea
The Covid-19 pandemic has radically changed the landscape of HealthTech on a global scale, enabling an entirely new pace of adoption and implementation of new technologies - as innovations that once took years to be deployed now require a shorter time frame.
South Korea: the land of Metaverse – A new Report
South Korea innovation ecosystem now is becoming one of the world’s main innovation clusters, according to the “Tech Scaleup South Korea 2022 Report”, produced by advisory firm Mind the Bridge with the support of Korean National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA).
EdTech : Future of education through open innovation in Korea
South Korea’s best innovations in the field of EdTech coming to Seoul Summit organized by Mind the Bridge (September 19-21). South Korea’s high-speed internet, strong technology companies, and reputation for early adoption of technologies – combined with one of the world’s largest proportions of teenagers entering higher education and huge household spending on out-of-school classes – has made it a major testbed for educational technology start-ups wanting a springboard to global markets.
Italgas opens a brand-new Innovation Antenna in Silicon Valley
Italgas, main distributor of natural gas in Italy and the third in Europe, inaugurates a privileged access point to the world of innovation in the United States within the "Mind the Bridge Innovation Center" in San Francisco.
INDUSTRY 4.0: Revolutionary innovations joining us in South Korea
A significant transformation is happening in the way we do things, and the answer is digitalization. Industry 4.0 refers to a new phase in the Industrial Revolution that focuses heavily on interconnectivity, automation, machine learning, and real-time data. Mind the Bridge is hosting Scaleup Summit South Korea (Seoul, September 19-20): 7 startups operating in this field are invited. The event will include curated panels and visits to the local ecosystems, where corporates, investors, and scaleups operating in specific industry verticals can do business and spot technology trends.
Korean-American Startup Summit in NYC
On September 21st, Kised (Korean Institute of Startup and Entrepreneurial Development) and Mind the Bridge we will host a Korean Scaleup Demo Day, as the final event of a 2-month long Acceleration and Global Market Entry program. The event is part of the Korean-American Startup Summit scheduled for September 19-21.
A new child on the Venture Builder Block: Eniverse Ventures
Global energy company Eni recently announced the establishment of Eniverse Ventures, a new fully owned entity dedicated to Corporate Venture Building activities, “to enhance proprietary technologies in new businesses while promoting a just transition”.
BEST Program Graduation 2022
The BEST Program (Business Exchange and Student Training) is a bilateral program between Italy-USA, creating future innovation business leaders. The BEST talents have been carefully chosen to come to the hub of innovation in Silicon Valley and learn about the key functions and best practices for 6 months. Recently, the Graduation Ceremony was held for the Italian Fulbright BEST Scholars in San Francisco.
Mind the Bridge strengthens its growth in global innovation products and services by acquiring iLab Collective
AI-powered Innovation platform firm Mind the Bridge today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with iLab Collective, leading innovation consultancy, venture studio, and partner to the hottest, up-and-coming startups in Silicon Valley and international markets, , to acquire its operations asset.
Open Innovation: Tech Mahindra shaping future in India
Tech Mahindra is an Indian multinational IT services and consulting company, part of Mahindra group and worth US$5.2 billion. Recently, it has become one of the innovation leading companies, hence awarded by ICC and Mind the Bridge as part of Corporate Startup Stars Awards 2021. After winning this prestigious award, Nikhil Malhotra, Chief Innovation Officer at Tech Mahindra, sat down with us to give us the key insights into the company’s open innovation activities. (pics credits: Tech Mahindra Official Instagram Account @techmahindra_official)
Mind The Bridge joins Tech Barcelona as Corporate Partners
Mind the Bridge has joined Tech Barcelona as its corporate partner to provide its network of innovation connections and promote the city's technological and digital ecosystem at a global level.
Future is multi-energy
What's the Future of Propulsion? We come from a strong technological standard – internal combustion engines, but the question is which propulsion will be chosen in the on-road and off-road industrial sectors?
Italian companies (finally) gaining a prominent innovation presence in Silicon Valley
After Enel, several companies have opened innovation outposts in Silicon Valley. What is motivating this shift? The short answer is that doing innovation is a way easier in San Francisco. Mind the Bridge asked leaders from companies joining Acea Innovation Day held in Rome about “the factors that motivated them to have an Innovation Antenna in Silicon Valley". A fascinating question with some brilliant insights worth chewing over.
Barcelona vs Madrid: will the “two-horse” Tech Race pay off?
Spain represents a unique case in the European tech scaleup ecosystem, according to the latest “Tech Scaleup Spain” Report produced by Mind the Bridge with the support of ACCIONA and Crunchbase and unveiled at the Opening of Mind the Bridge Scaleup Summit Barcelona.
How to Turn Intrapreneurship into Innovation
The success of intrapreneurship programs depends on more complex parameters including a company’s cultural propensity towards innovation, risk aversion, openness towards new ideas coming from the external environment. For these reason, it’s worthwhile understanding how they empirically work.