HTE Workshop
High Tech Entrepreneurship
When research meets young talents

More about HTE
HTE is a 2-months program where students have the opportunity to collaborate with the researchers of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia to create Startups out of innovative technology breakthroughs.
The program's goal is to reframe innovative ideas into a viable business, which will be presented through a pitch at the end of the program.
Sessions, in the format of practical training and lectures, will cover different aspects of starting up a business, from Design Thinking, Business Modelling, Market Assessment, People Management, Money Management, IP Strategy/Patenting and Pitching. While attending the program, each team will be supported by mentors of our Partner, Manager Italia.

We take pride
in our numbers
5
Years of Experience
60+
Business ideas
5
Established Companies

Fulvio Puzone
Research Manager
@IIT

Elisabetta Migone
Business Developer
@IIT
Core Team

Lorenzo De Michieli
Director of the Rehab Technologies Lab @IIT
Speakers & Mentors
Paolo Privitera
SV Entrepreneur & CEO @Evensi
Matteo Bonfanti
Technology Transfer Director @IIT
Lorenzo Rossi
Intellectual Property Manager @IIT
Carlo Sanfilippo
Senior Investment Manager @Indaco Venture Partners
Lorenzo Massa
Full Professor @Aalborg University Business School
Alessandro Cricchio
Co-Founder & CEO @Talent Garden Genova
Dario Ballerini
Project Leader @Manageritalia Liguria
Anna Zanuttini
Member @Manageritalia Liguria
Mario Pasquero
Member @Manageritalia Liguria
Matteo Massa
Member @Manageritalia Liguria
Gianluca Frisone
Member @Manageritalia Liguria
Paolo Bandiera
Member @Manageritalia Liguria
Francesca Mariani
Member @Manageritalia Liguria
Anna De Benetti
Member @Manageritalia Liguria
Lucia Frison
Member @Manageritalia Liguria
Our Partners


About IIT
Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (“IIT”) is a Private Foundation established by the State, that aims to promote excellence in basic and applied research and foster the development of the national economic system.
IIT operates in four Research Domains (RDs): Robotics, Nanomaterials, Technologies for Life Science, and Computational Sciences, with a distinctive multidisciplinary approach to the pursuit of excellence.
IIT’s staff comprises around 1890 people, of which about 50% come from abroad, from over 60 countries worldwide, with an average age of 35 and 42% of the staff are women.
IIT staff have generated more than 15000 scientific publications, over 200 active European projects, and 50 ERC projects, more than 1000 patents, 27 start-ups (with several more business ideas in development).
The Institute comprises four large Centers in Genoa and additional 11 Centers across Italy (in Turin, two in Milan, Trento, Rome, two in Pisa and Pontedera (PI), Naples, Lecce, Ferrara, and Venice) and two outstations abroad in the USA (MIT and Harvard).

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