2i3T – Business Incubator and Technology Transfer University of Turin)

2i3T aims to develop local economy by speeding up the creation of innovative start-up companies in knowledge intense sectors and better exploiting the results of academic research. The 2i3T incubator puts its emphasis on the liason between University and Industry, and encourages the fusion of academic skills and managerial competence. In 2016 2i3T has run a knowledge transfer activity in the field of regenerative medicine promoted by a Biomedical multinational company.
2i3T aims to develop a suitable environment for creative entrepreneurship and the Technology Transfer process. Indeed, 2i3T facilitates Knowledge Transfer between University Scouting activities; thanks to scouting activities 2i3T has reached in the University almost 1.500 competences mapped, developing a dataset.
The Incubator 2i3T also provides a team for training activities towards creating a Business Plan: pre-incubation and incubation period (with high quality laboratory space).
Since 2015 2i3T established a partnership with Junior Achievement, an international NPO devoted to economic education of young people, in order to promote entrepreneurship to students of high schools of Piedmont.
The incubator has several stakeholder public and private: Institution engaged in job creation, investors (Business angels, corporate venture, venture capital) companies, business associations, professionals.
The main beneficiaries are university students, PhD students and Researchers of the University.