Starting ribbons for the first Co-Innovation LAB of the capital born from the collaboration between Cisco, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and Marzotto Venture Accelerator, a laboratory dedicated to scientific innovation where it is possible to launch new and unprecedented initiatives by sharing skills, ideas, technologies with the aim of seizing the opportunities offered by digital transformation and its disruption force.
Inaugurated within the Advanced Research Center ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, the Co-Innovation LAB will focus its activity on the digital health sector but also on the fields of Circular Economy, Digital Learning and Industry 4.0, selecting projects inspired by models of sustainability, circularity and digital transition.
It will be an open environment, a factory of ideas, the ideal place to foster contamination and virtuous collaboration as a strategic lever of value for technology transfer.
In the era of digital innovation, the ability to "create a system" between complementary innovation players makes it possible to transform new business ideas into concrete innovative solutions more effectively. 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 practices.
The debut project of the Co-Innovation LAB - presented on the occasion of the inauguration 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 parameters and much more.
The high quality audio-video connection is supported by the collaboration platform Cisco webex, while "in the field" devices such as smart glasses and a smartphone app are used, which allow you to interact and manage the various activities.
Eye4Care was conceived by Headapp, start-up selected and funded by the accelerator Marzotto Venture Accelerator following a dedicated “call for ideas”. Headapp combines various digital technologies related to virtual reality to improve the work of doctors, technicians and operators from different 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'interaction between actors'public and private innovation to enhance new high-tech projects – has ofchiarato Roberto Guida, Director of'Unità of research 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 inauguration of the Co-Innovation LAB took place during the event “Collaborative ecosystems in the age of digital innovation” organized byUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, during which the diploma award ceremony for the first edition of the II level University Master's Degree in Digital Open Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Cisco is among the partners who support the Master by contributing, in particular, to the teaching activity.
The Rector took part in the round table UCBM Raffaele Calabrò, Andrea Rossi Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of UCBM, the professor. Roberto Guida Director of the ''Innovation Entrepreneurship & Sustainability Group'' Research Unit together with Gianmatteo Manghi Chief Executive Officer of Cisco Italia, to the Regional Councilor for Economic Development of the Lazio Region Paul Orneli and to the President of Confindustria Digitale Agostino Santoni.
