A laboratory dedicated to scientific innovation and the sharing of ideas, skills and technologies
28 January 2022 - Opened on first Co-Innovation Lab in the capital dedicated to scientific innovation where it is possible to launch new and unprecedented initiatives by sharing skills, ideas and technologies with the aim of seizing the opportunities offered by digital transformation and its disruption force. Thanks to the collaboration between Cisco, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and Marzotto Venture Accelerator, the Co-Innovation Lab will direct its activity towards the digital health but also in the fields of Circular Economy, from the Digital learning and dell 'Industry 4.0 selecting projects inspired by models of sustainability, circularity and digital transition. The inauguration of the Co-Innovation Lab took place during the event "Collaborative ecosystems in the era of digital innovation" organized by UCBM, during which the ceremony was also held delivery of the diplomas of the first edition of the II level University Master in Digital Open Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Cisco is among the partners who support the Master by contributing, in particular, to the teaching activity.
Made within the Advanced Research Pole UCBM, the Co-Innovation Lab will be an open environment, conceived as an ideal place to foster virtuous collaboration as a strategic lever of value for technology transfer. In the era of digital innovation, the ability to "make a system" between complementary innovation players allows new business ideas to be transformed more effectively into concrete innovative solutions. This is what is organized in the Hub, also with the help of an enabling digital platform that favors and accelerates the processes of construction and management of co-innovation.
The debut project of the Co-Innovation Lab - presented at the opening event - is called Eye4Care: a platform capable of supporting those who work on the front line in Healthcare, connecting operators in the ward and remote operators in real time (specialist doctors, health technicians, etc.). A useful tool to offer supervision, training and accompaniment in procedures, patient pre-triage, "hands-free" collection of vital signs and much more. The high quality audio-video connection is supported by the collaboration platform Cisco webex, while devices such as smart glasses and a smartphone app are used "in the field", which allow you to interact and manage the various activities. Eye4Care was created by Headapp, start-up selected and funded by the accelerator Marzotto Venture Accelerator following a dedicated "call for ideas". Headapp combines different digital technologies related to virtual reality to improve the work of doctors, technicians and operators from various sectors, and was presented by the head of Innovation, Architecture and Digital Transformation of Cisco Italia Enrico Mercadante.
"This new initiative of our Innovation Exchange adds another piece to the network of physical places and relationships that we have been building for several years in Italy, addressing all the key players in the innovation ecosystem: academia, accelerators and incubators, venture capital , partners and other companies that, like Cisco, want to accelerate the sustainable and inclusive digital transition that our country needs", commented Gianmatteo Manghi, CEO of Cisco Italy. "In this sense, the path of co-innovation is certainly effective, because it facilitates the creation of synergies to give new answers to real market needs".
“We create a collaborative ecosystem model based on the interaction between public and private innovation actors to enhance new high-tech projects – has ofchiarato Roberto Guida, Director of the Research Unit Innovation Entrepreneurship & Sustainability Group ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma. Thanks to the Co-Innovation Lab, our University makes available to a large international group leader in digital innovation such as CISCO and to a business accelerator with consolidated experience such as Marzotto Venture Accelerator the ideal place to share tangible and intangible resources, propose its role as a catalyst for open innovation and technological development processes and to network to allow ideas to become real innovation".
The Rector took part in the round table UCBM Raffaele Calabrò, the Chief Executive Officer and General Manager UCBM Andrea Rossi, the Director of the Research Unit "Innovation Entrepreneurship & Sustainability Group" teacher. Roberto Guida, together with the CEO of Cisco Italia Gianmatteo Manghi, to the Regional Councilor for Economic Development of the Lazio Region Paul Orneli and to the President of Confindustria Digitale Agostino Santoni.
