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HTE Workshop

High Tech Entrepreneurship

When research meets young talents

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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 ManagementIP Strategy/Patenting and Pitching. While attending the program, each team will be supported by mentors of our Partner, Manager Italia.

How it works

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Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia selects the most innovative technological breakthroughs among the ideas developed by its researchers.

Students apply to HTE 

Multidisciplinary teams of students and researchers are created.

HTE can start!

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We take pride
in our numbers

5

Years of Experience

60+

Business ideas

5

Established Companies

Organizers

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Emilio Alacevich

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Business Analyst

@IIT

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Stefano De La Torre

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Business Analyst

@IIT

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Angelo Gasparre

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Associate Professor 

@UniGe

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Luca Beltrametti

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Full Professor

@UniGe

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Eric Guerci

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Associate Professor

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Silvia Marchini

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Design Thinking Coach @ICE_UCA

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Samira Karrach

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Co-Director

@ICE_UCA

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Fulvio Puzone

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Research Manager

@IIT

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Elisabetta Migone

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Business Developer

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Core Team

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Lorenzo De Michieli

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Director of the Rehab Technologies Lab @IIT

Speakers & Mentors

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Paolo Privitera

SV Entrepreneur & CEO @Evensi

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Matteo Bonfanti

Technology Transfer Director @IIT

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Lorenzo Rossi

Intellectual Property Manager @IIT

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Carlo Sanfilippo

Senior Investment Manager @Indaco Venture Partners

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Lorenzo Massa

Full Professor @Aalborg University Business School

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Alessandro Cricchio

Co-Founder & CEO @Talent Garden Genova

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Dario Ballerini

Project Leader @Manageritalia Liguria

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Anna Zanuttini

Member @Manageritalia Liguria

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Mario Pasquero

Member @Manageritalia Liguria

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Matteo Massa

Member @Manageritalia Liguria

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Gianluca Frisone

Member @Manageritalia Liguria

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Paolo Bandiera

Member @Manageritalia Liguria

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Francesca Mariani

Member @Manageritalia Liguria

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Anna De Benetti

Member @Manageritalia Liguria

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Lucia Frison

Member @Manageritalia Liguria

Our Partners

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About IIT

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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