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CRG Entrepreneurship Week 2025
The CRG Entrepreneurship Week (5-9 May 2025) is an annual event that brings together budding entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and seasoned professionals to foster innovation and entrepreneurship.
During the 2025 edition, we will have a number of ONLINE seminars open to the scientific community delivered by top-notch stakeholders.
How to attend the open seminars:
Connect to this Zoom link to attend the open seminars:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5066080354?omn=83913576942
Please use the same link for all the presentations you wish to attend.
We will have ONLINE talks by:
5th May 2025
12:00h
"Meet the Entrepreneur”
Marc Talló - CSO of NoctuRNA Tx
6th May 2025
10:00h
“Pitch your Science”
Francisco Torres - Partnership Director for Southern Europe Owkin
6th May 2025
11:00h
“Into the Accelerator”
Fabian Scheugenpflug - Principal at Plug & Play
7th May 2025
10:00h
“Insights from the IP Expert”
Wim Grunewald - Head of IP Aphea.Bio
8th May 2025
14:00h
“The Scientist Journey”
Laura Soucek - ICREA Research Professor VHIO. CEO and Co-founder of Peptomyc S.L
CRG Biobusiness School 2025
CRG Biobusiness School - 10th edition
5th to 9th May 2025
The Annual CRG BioBusiness School 2025 is a highly interactive, activity-driven learning process that takes scientists through a concentrated entrepreneurial immersion experience, aiming to instil an entrepreneurial mindset. It's designed to ignite the ability to convert lab ideas into business ones.
The core of the program takes participants through the venture building process in small groups of participants, supported by knowledge exchange with entrepreneurs and business experts. It culminates in a pitch event. The online interactive workshop provides valuable resources such as business templates, educational material, and a communication channel to capture and maximise the training outcome.
Participants benefits
You will benefit from building an entrepreneurial skillset that will give you the capacity and confidence to pinpoint the added commercial value of your research as well as to envision the creation of your own business. Independently of pursuance of the entrepreneurial path, the skills acquired throughout the course will confer participants with an advantage in the job market as these are greatly sought-after skills by the corporate, NGOs and public sector. The online format of the program widens the networking opportunities with national and international fellows, allowing you to establish bonds with other participants and invited speakers. Besides work, there will also be fun activities to keep the group stimulated and engaged.
Expectations from participants
The CRG BioBusiness School is a rewarding, exciting and intense program. We expect attendees to be fully engaged throughout the course, which includes 1 to 1.5 hours of additional knowledge dives in the evenings. There will also be an Innovation Knowledge Launchpad to be completed 2 weeks before the course starts.
Target audience
The workshop is tailored for researchers and management personnel working in life sciences.
Why Join?
Tailored for Scientists: Learn how to transition your research into a viable business.
Flipped-Classroom Approach: Maximize interactive learning through pre-program exposure.
Hands-on Experience: Work on real-world challenges,...
CRG Awarded Spain’s First Ever Tech Transfer Fellowship
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TBDO collaborates with DINA-ITC
CRG Entrepreneurship Week 2024
The CRG Entrepreneurship Week is an annual event that brings together budding entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and seasoned professionals to foster innovation and entrepreneurship. This year’s edition we will have talks by:
The sessions below are open to the CRG community only.
You can join the sessions by clicking on this link.
July 1, 2024
10:00 h
Miquel Vila-Perelló – CEO of SpliceBio
"The Scientist's Journey"
July 2, 2024
12:00 h
Marina Rigau – CEO of Mimark
"Meet the Entrepreneur"
July 3, 2024
12:00 h
Daniel Oliver – Partner at Capital Cell
"Meet the Investor"
July 4, 2024
11:00 h
Héctor Pérez- VP at Ability Pharma
"Into the Clinical Path"
CRG Entrepreneurship Week 2023
Once again, we celebrate the CRG Entrepreneurship Week, a time to meet and discuss with innovators and the entrepreneurship community, who dream big and inspire others to bring their ideas to life while driving socio-economic growth and welfare.
Targeting students, researchers, alumni, mentors, start-ups, industry, investors and other innovation partners.
The sessions below are open to the CRG community only.
You can join the sessions by clicking on this link.
April 24, 2023
10:30 h
Evan Floden, Seqera Labs
"The Scientist's Journey"
April 25, 2023
12:00 h
Joan Perelló, Sanifit
"Meet the Entrepreneur"
April 27, 2023
09:30 h
Malcolm Bain, Across Legal SLP
"Software Protection"
April 27, 2023
14:00 h
Gabor Heltovics, NLC Ventures
"Meet the Venture Builder"
TBDO Sessions Malcolm Bain
14/09/202212:00473.10TBDO SessionsMalcolm BainAcross LegalLicensing research software: options and challenges.Host: Sanz Molinero, Ana IsabelAbstract:Malcolm is an English solicitor and Spanish abogado. He has worked as an Information Technology and Intellectual Property lawyer over the last 20 years, with a specialisation in technology licensing, open source software and content, technology transfer and privacy.
In 2006, together with his partner Manuel Martínez, he founded his own firm “id-law partners” as a boutique specialized in IP and ICT. In May 2018, both incorporated this firm into Across Legal. In addition to his professional activity advising entrepreneurs, private companies, public administrations and open source projects, Malcolm is a member of the Free Software Foundation Europe and ASTP, associate professor of law at the University of Barcelona, ¿¿mentor in Tecniospring Industry and other programs for entrepreneurs and frequent speaker at conferences and seminars in the field of ICTs and entrepreneurship in the digital world.
INNOVATION MINDSET ACADEMY (IMA) 2022
The 1st edition of the Innovation Mindset Academy (IMA), a new training initiative put together by TBDO, CRG ISA and Training, took place in March 2022 within the framework of the European Training Network Chromdesign, coordinated by CRG's Group Leader Luciano Di Croce.
The IMA scheme was ideated to be highly interactive and activity-based to take PhD students through an entrepreneurial immersion experience while instilling an entrepreneurial mindset, helping students to develop their skills to convert lab-ideas into business ones.
IMA participants worked on their own business ideas for a week while engaging in discussions with entrepreneurs and scientists in business. The topics covered were intellectual property protection and disclosure, value creation, and demanded skill sets from researchers in a business environment.
The IMA 2022 stands as the optimal prelude of the next CRG BioBussines School Edition, to take place in 2023.
The TBDO participated in the 2017 BIO International Convention in San Diego
The BIO International Convention (BIO) attracts over 15,000 biotechnology and pharma leaders who come together for one week of intensive networking and partnering meetings to discover new opportunities and promising partnerships.
TBDO awarded two VALUNI 2016 grants for technology transfer projects
ACCIÓ has awarded the TBDO with two VALUNI 2016 grants for technology transfer projects. The grants will help financing:
- The incorporation of Microomics, a CRG spin-off that will offer professional services in the field of metagenomics analysis;
- The licensing of a novel technology for the treatment of Huntington’s disease by means of CRG proprietary and patented Zinc Finger Proteins.