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, formats where international corporates can explore the world’s most interesting tech hotspots, benchmark their open innovation approaches, spot technology trends, and meet targeted scaleups offering solutions to their innovation challenges
By Alberto Onetti|2022-12-06T18:27:43+01:00December 6th, 2022|General, Main publications, Open Innovation|
Gold Standards for the World’s Companies to Incorporate Open Innovation and Corporate-Startup Collaboration - Best practices for worldwide companies and SMEs emerging from Corporate Startup Stars Awards
By Serena Orizi|2022-12-16T09:02:46+01:00December 6th, 2022|General, News|
For the 7th year running, the world’s most active corporates working with startups and worldwide best practices in corporate-startup collaboration have been recognized and identified at the prestigious annual Corporate Startup Stars Awards. Launched by Mind the Bridge under the European Commission’s Startup Europe Partnership initiative in 2016, the Awards have been scaled at global level thanks to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). A total of 100 companies from all over the world have been named today winners in the 2022 Corporate Startup Stars Awards: 50 as Corporate Startup Stars - with Siemens securing the top position - and 50 companies named Open Innovation Challengers.
By Alberto Onetti|2022-12-06T18:28:11+01:00December 6th, 2022|General, Main publications, Open Innovation|
Mind the Bridge, Evolve or Be Extinct - Open Innovation Models for the Future - Season 2022 - Highlights from Corporate Startup Stars, London, December 2022
By Serena Orizi|2022-10-17T19:35:30+02:00October 17th, 2022|General|
New Report produced by Mind the Bridge confirms that corporate innovation presence in Silicon Valley is experiencing a steady growth both in number and size of the units, for a total workforce of approximately 40-50K innovation professionals from global leaders. The study also tracks an increased buy-in of innovation related strategies from top-management as well as the rise of the new phenomenon of Government presence from all over the world supporting innovation with stable representatives in the area.
By Serena Orizi|2022-09-20T12:25:37+02:00September 20th, 2022|General|
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).
