Fondazione Filarete launches "Healthy Startups" program

Healthy Startups is the monthly appointment to present and discuss innovative entrepreneurial ideas in Health.
Business development managers, investors, researchers and entrepreneurs will take part in Healthy Startups in order to help the discussion

Who?
Healthy Startups is open to everyone having an idea, a technology, a product, a service or an already existing startup or spin-off (both academic or industrial).
There are just two pre-requisites: 1. the field of activity must be health in all its possible meanings (biotechnology, pharma, advanced therapies, diagnostics, biomedical devices, nutraceutics, industrial biotech, ICT for health, health 2.0 …); 2. The idea/project or startup has to be innovative under the scientific or technological or industrial or organizational point of view and should be expected to bring benefits and impacts on a large scale.

When?
There will be one meeting per month, starting on March 28th, 2012 at 4.00 pm.

Where?
At Fondazione Filarete, viale Ortles 22/4, Milan (Italy).

How?
You can sign up sending an e-mail at healthystartups@fondazionefilarete.com with the title of the idea/project, names of participants and a brief abstract (no longer than 5 lines) of the idea/project that will be presented.
In order to take part in the Healthy Startups meeting you have to prepare a 10 minutes presentation. After the presentation there will be time for Q&A and discussion. The presentation should address, at least, the following issues: which is the pain/need you are going to solve, what is innovative in your idea/project and the competencies of the team working on the idea/project.

Healthy Startups is proposed by Fondazione Filarete (www.fondazionefilarete.com) which is a center for innovation, technology transfer and startups incubation in life science and health. Fondazione Filarete was founded by the University of Milan, Fondazione Cariplo and Intesa Sanpaolo, with the participation of Milan Chamber of Commerce (co-founder) and Novamont SpA (Associate Company).

For more information: http://www.fondazionefilarete.com/tool/home.php?s=0,49,56,80&pg=&dfa=do602&pg=&diditem=403