Technology to Market for Competitive Manufacturing in Europe – Tech2Market

Tech2Market is a project offering acceleration program that aims to facilitate the process of successfully transferring deeptech R&D to the market in the manufacturing industry. The goal is to select the most promising solutions through a competition, and then empower the scientific and technical teams behind them with tailored coaching on entrepreneurship skills provided by a remarkable network of mentors.

Grant agreement:: 22144
Funding program: EIT Manufacturing
Budget: EUR 595 965
Start Date: 01.01.2022
End Date: 31.12.2022
Duration: 12 months

Main activities designed to achieve the project goals:

Selection of mentors who will support Venture Competition participants to build capacity and skills
“Train the Trainer” program to mentors aiming to equip business professionals with skills on topics such as pitching, technology-product-market, value proposition, problem definition, business modelling and go-to-market planning
Acceleration program offering to participants two bootcamps with expert coaching, trainings, workshops, pitching clinics and 8 weeks mentorship program.

Expected outcomes from the implementation of the project:

Successfully transferring deeptech R&D to the market in the manufacturing industry
Тrain a new generation of mentors and entrepreneurs in the manufacturing industry that are able to convert their technical knowledge into applied value in the market
Select the best in class through competion and then empower these scientific and technical teams with entrepreneurship skills in order to allow them to monetize their R&D results.