PODCAST: Meeting with Glaston, an Open Innovation pioneer in the glass industry
Today’s episode will be with Jason Victor, event coordinator at a great Finnish midsize companies Glaston. The goal of this initiative is to help Mid Sized companies to innovate and more specifically to develop partnerships with startups.
The new startup wave coming out from Tokyo – Mind the Bridge with JETRO
Mind the Bridge is very happy to announce its partnership with JETRO (Japanese External Trade Organization), born with the scope of supporting the best Japanese startups in US Market Access capacity.
Innovation in CPG: more Data or better Experience?
In our constant quest of bridging the world of traditional industries with the magic of innovative startups, this week we take a deep-dive in the complex world of CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) and Retail. While this is a world where innovation is (for the most part) incremental and the tsunami looks still as a harmless […]
Mind the Bridge-Nesta Open Innovation Outlook 2019
Macro-Trends for 2019 in Open Innovation and Corporate-Startup Engagement, according to last brief report “Open Innovation Outlook 2019” realized by Mind the Bridge and Nesta.
SEP Corporate Startup Stars 2018 – The winners!
Samsung Electronics, KPN and Sodexo named as the corporates working most collaboratively with startups across Europe For the third year running, European startups have been asked through a public call to nominate the most active corporates in terms of open-innovation. Samsung Electronics, KPN and Sodexo got the top three positions, according the new ranking unveiled […]
A Plan to support “tier-two” Startup Cities in Europe. Launching SCEP
Innovation economy is concentrated in a few main hubs “Approximately 50 main cities will be likely driving the innovation economy in Europe in the next years, while all the other cities and municipalities face the risk to be increasingly marginalized. This growing gap could potentially trigger disaggregation and separatisms”. With these words, Alberto Onetti, Chairman […]
SEC2SV 2018: the names of the European Tech Scaleups invited
A new group of Scaleup Europe tech companies ready to be showcased in Silicon Valley They come from 8 different countries – Albania, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Spain – and employ nearly 1000 employees for a total of $75M in revenue and more than $135M in funding. They are the 13 tech […]
Startup exit in HR Tech: Openjobmetis acquires Meritocracy
The leading employment agency listed on the Borsa Italiana MTA acquired the Italian digital recruiting platform, to integrate technology in their search & selection business. Mind the Bridge advisory firm behind the due diligence and the deal. Milan, Brussels June 5th, 2018 – “Exits are key for the sustainability and growth of the European startup […]
Here are the European “Bridges” to Silicon Valley: a new MTB Report
There are 26 of them, from 18 different countries, and they cover almost all of Europe. They are the “European Bridge Organizations”, supporting European startups landing in Silicon Valley and promoting entrepreneurship in their country of origin by bridging to the Bay Area. A full analysis of their distribution, mission, activity and coverage has been presented […]