I.D.E.A. Innovation - Development - Entrepreneurship

We inspire your future, we give space to your ideas

The University of Bologna enhances research, cultivates talents and supports you through training and development of your business project

Students

We offer tailor-made opportunities allowing you to look to the future

Students

You don’t have clear ideas?

Come in and be inspired

You already have an idea?

We can help you to develop it

From the idea to the project

Create your start-up
Teachers and researchers

We turn knowledge into social growth and development, together

Teachers and researchers

Innovation in teaching and research

Find out why every subject is interesting

Do you have the right business idea?

We can help you to develop it

Your spin-off wants to grow

You have our support
Organisations

Innovation, investment, entrepreneurship: a field to sow together

Organisations

University and business: drivers of innovation

Find out our strengths

Look to the future, be the innovation

The importance of investing well

Agenda

12 NOV 2024

11 NOV 2025

Shaping ideas

Published

Makerspace Call

Call for Access to Makerspace Laboratory Prototyping Services

09 APR

31 JUL 2025

Improving your skills

Published

Tech Forward: now online!

Apply by Mar 31 to the TF post-graduate training program! 2nd-cycle/Master students will collaborate to explore innovative technologies developed by research groups from local universities

23 MAY 2025

Published

StartUp Day - 23 May

Join the regional event about innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability! Register online

30 JUN 2025

Shaping ideas

Published

Coming soon: Call for applications for CBI and SUGAR open innovation programmes

In June the call to support and develop innovative ideas is going to be published.

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How to transform, valorize, and put into practice what I studied and researched at University

Taking part in this process helped me to understand how to put into practice what I studied and researched in order to provide my contribution to the enterprise world and create my own business

Sofia, PhD student - Advanced Academy participant
Where ideas find the way to becoming a business

We were enthusiastic about our technology, but it became a business idea with the support of the I.D.E.A. group. Support, commitment, passion, tons of professionalism and enthusiasm, these are the reagents of the team!

Stefania Rapino, Spin Off Insimili
Having an idea is like drawing a new region on a map

a place that is real only in our mind and that we cannot reach because it doesn’t exist yet. Here we can find people who can help us draw the plans to complete the map and make that place real.

Matteo Cerri
Allowed us to identify the weaknesses of our project

The entrepreneurial service allowed us to identify the weaknesses of our project right from the start and improve. Thanks

Samuele, No studio startupper
We had an idea and today is a new reality

When we began this journey, we had an idea, which then became a project, and today is a new reality. The I.D.E.A group has been our guide and has made this transformation possible, not only with great professionalism but with openness, patience, energy and smiles. A big thanks!

Paola Bonifacci, teacher, spin-off Aladin