Our goal is to foster a sustainable and global entrepreneurial ecosystem. Our programs and activities focus on bringing startups and corporates together to enhance the growth of all parties, and to bring new value to enterprises through innovation.
Mind the Bridge is an international team with experience and a presence in multiple ecosystems.
Mind the Bridge has been running a non-profit foundation since 2007. It was established by Marco Marinucci with the support of a group of entrepreneurs passionate about entrepreneurship education.
Mind the Bridge was established in 2007 by then Googler, Marco Marinucci. Marco now serves as the company’s CEO with Italian university Professor Alberto Onetti as its chairman.
The Scaleup Summits are highly curated, invitation only, matching activities hosted by the most prestigious Stock Exchanges where international corporates, investors and scaleups operating in specific verticals can do business and spot technology trends.
Collaboration between corporates and startups, if done right, can bring tremendous benefit to both. Startups can access invaluable resources and market insight which can help them scale, whilst for established companies, such collaborations offer an important mode of innovation – as well as subtler benefits like cultural change.
Corporate Startup Stars is the celebration of Best Practices and Role Models in #OpenInnovation.
By Serena Orizi|2021-12-16T17:14:19+01:00December 16th, 2021|General|
For the sixth year running, startups have nominated the corporates they believed to be most active in terms of open innovation for the prestigious annual Corporate Startup Stars Awards. Pfizer secured first place, followed by AXA and Xiaomi. The global ranking has been unveiled today in Paris during the official Award Ceremony, opened by French Secretary of State for the Digital Economy Cédric O.
By Ricardo Silva|2021-05-07T11:22:16+02:00May 3rd, 2021|Corporates|
Mind the Bridge caught up with Luís Manuel, Executive Director at EDP Inovação to dig deeper into their open innovation approach. EDP is the main energy company in Portugal and the fourth largest wind energy production company in the world, being present in 19 countries and 4 continents.
By Serena Orizi|2021-04-09T12:12:25+02:00April 8th, 2021|Corporates|
Launch of the “Tech Scaleup MENA preliminary Report 2021” in Beirut by Mind the Bridge during Closing of the first MENA Tech Scaleup Summit 2021. As of December 2020, the study tracked 448 scaleups across 19 countries, able to attract $6.2B in funding.
By Serena Orizi|2021-03-23T18:27:19+01:00March 23rd, 2021|Corporates, Startups|
The 2021 edition of the Awards organized by Mind the Bridge in collaboration with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has been launched today at the Opening of the MENA Digital Scaleup Summit co-hosted by the Dubai Future Foundation and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia and supported by the Dubai Chamber.
By Jyotsna Kadimi|2021-03-10T09:30:45+01:00March 9th, 2021|Corporates|
In this Mind the Chat interview, Mind the Bridge's CEO and founder Marco Marinucci speaks with Goran Kukic, Chief Innovation Technology Officer of Nestlé, the world's largest food company by revenue, with more than 24,000 employees and 90 billion dollars in sales.
