BIND is the space for connection and advice in open innovation, for collaboration and innovation between startups and leading companies of international reference based in Basque Country. The aim is to promote the growth, transformation and evolution of Smart Industry, Clean & Sustainable Energy and the Health and Food sectors.
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If you have developed a solution capable of revolutionizing the industry of tomorrow and want to grow in one of the world's leading Intelligent Industry Ecosystems, this is your space. We are looking for innovative technology startups from all over the world to develop their projects and accelerate the innovation of large reference companies in the Basque Country.
Open Innovation through startups is an agile and successful way of industrial innovation. If you belong to the sectors of Intelligent Industry, Clean & Sustainable Energy, Food or Health & Pharmaceuticals, this is your program to learn and implement the most cutting-edge technologies, discover the success stories of your ecosystem and receive expert advice to find the most appropriate solutions for your business.
Connect to the Innovation Ecosystem in Smart Industry: You will have access to reference companies based in Basque Country and participate in networking activities within the open innovation ecosystem.
Get your first customers: You will be able to develop your innovative technology hand in hand with the best companies in the sector and test its viability in the market. All participants get one or more contracts.
Expert advice: More than 40 mentors specialized in business acceleration, market strategies for new smart industry technologies, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Gain access to investors, funding sources, financial aid and workspace in the BICs, Business and Innovation Centers of the Basque Country.
Be connected to open innovation and corporate venturing: With dynamic and targeted events, you will learn about local success stories of value to your company, and you can share experiences and compare knowledge.
Get an analysis of startups: Access to a platform where you can discover and learn about the most disruptive and successful technologies in the market and analyze how they can help you improve your processes.
Hire the best technologies: Identify the technologies you need and hire those startups of greatest interest to your business, through a Venture Client collaboration.
Improve your competitiveness: With the incorporation of pioneering solutions in your company, developed by innovative startups to implement directly and quickly into your processes.
Access training and education: With events and workshops designed to connect startups and companies, helping to create a collaborative framework that ensures the success of working together.
It is an open innovation platform that facilitates the access of startups to the market through leading benchmark companies based in the Basque Country. The aim is to develop disruptive projects with new technologies to make companies more competitive and accelerate the transformation of industry.
Phases of the programme
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July - September
Opening of the call for startups from around the world to submit their proposals and present their disruptive technological solutions.
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September - January
The pre-selected startups present their solutions to the BIND 4.0 trail-blazing companies that choose the finalists that best adapt to their needs to participate in the programme.
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January - June
Programme for the startups that have obtained one or more contracts with our corporate clients. Sessions with expert mentors, networking and contact with investors, at the same time as implementing their projects with the clients.
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March
Innovative companies from the fields of smart industry, clean and sustainable energy, health and food can apply to take part in the programme.
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July
Unique event which connects the whole innovation and investment industrial ecosystem to present the projects develop by the startups in conjunction with the partner companies.
BIND is, since 2016, the Open Innovation Platform of international reference, promoted by the Basque Government through the SPRI Group to support the transformation of industry and increase its competitiveness through startups with cutting-edge technological solutions.
The platform ensures the development of innovative projects in well-established companies, with pioneering startup technologies, in addition to offering advice and training to enhance the benefits of open innovation and growth with real projects and reference customers.
This program does not accept early stage or development stage projects. BIND is aimed at incorporated startups less than 8 years old that have completed their technological development and are ready to launch their product or service to the market.
Yes, startups must be legally established, have completed their technological development and be ready to launch or have recently entered the market.
No. Startups from all over the world can participate.
If you are a disruptive startup interested in this initiative, please complete this form.
BIND is the public-private open innovation platform for smart industry created by the Basque Government's Ministry for Economic Development, Sustainability and the Environment through the SPRI Group and its Up!Euskadi platform of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the Basque Country. It is currently working with 100 of the sector's leading benchmark companies based in the Basque Country.
This initiative started with the tripe goal of accelerating the development of the startups in the Basque industrial ecosystem, of fostering the digital transformation of companies and of positioning the Basque Country's ecosystem as an advanced industrial entrepreneurship hub. Since 2016, BIND has driven 210 startups and implemented 320 projects, generating a turnover of over €9 million.
BIND has three initiatives to innovate and respond to the new technological challenges.
