Where we invest
Fondazione Tech e Biomedical invests in companies operating nationwide, including innovative SMEs and startups, to strengthen research, development, and industrial reconversion in the biomedical sector and to support technology transfer.
In particular, in this area, the Foundation supports the green and circular economy, information technology, agri-tech and deep tech supply chain.
The Foundation invests, as implementing entity, through the resources of the two Funds it manages on behalf of the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy: the ‘Technology Transfer Fund’ and the Biomedical Research and Industrial Development Fund.
Fondazione Tech e Biomedical can coordinate or co-invest with companies, other institutional and private funds, and Italian and foreign public bodies and entities, including local ones, as well as through the use of European Union resources. It can also combine its own resources with those of the two aforementioned funds.
Fondazione Tech e Biomedical manages two funds on behalf of MIMIT
The technology transfer fund
Through the Technology Transfer Fund, the Foundation promotes initiatives and investments aimed at valorising and using the results of technological research in companies operating in the national territory, with particular reference to start-ups and innovative SMEs operating in technological fields of national strategic interest, with priority for Information Technology, the green economy, agritech and deep tech sectors (additive manufacturing, nanotechnologies, new materials, robotics, artificial intelligence).
The Technology Transfer Fund promotes the collaboration of public and private entities in the creation of innovation and spin-off projects that involve planning, promotion and development activities of innovative processes or products, advanced technologies as well as the dissemination of research results.
The biomedical industrial research and development fund
Through the Fund for Biomedical Industrial Research and Development, Fondazione Tech e Biomedical promotes research and industrial reconversion in the biomedical sector for the production of new drugs and vaccines, with a view to making the national ecosystem resilient in dealing with potential health emergencies. Fondazione Tech e Biomedical aims to foster the development of an advanced and innovative pharmaceutical industry nationwide and the production of diagnostic products, biomedical devices, and telemedicine. This includes the creation of highly specialized centers with the participation of other institutions and private companies, including foreign ones, to connect academic, basic, and preclinical research to subsequent phases, all the way up to industrial production.