High-tech Entrepreneurship course
4th February 2026 – 16 March 2026
10 hours (5 lectures )
We are pleased to invite you to take part in the new edition of the High-tech Entrepreneurship course offered by Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna.
The course will take place from 4 February to 16 March 2026 and is open to students, young researchers and post-docs. The course consists of five sessions, for a total of 10 hours of teaching.
SISSA participants will be albe to participate remotely - an online link for remote participation will be provided after enrollment.
This 10-hours course is designed to introduce participants, PhD and undergraduate students from different disciplines, young researchers and post-docs to the basic knowledge and competences about high-tech entrepreneurship. More precisely, the course will provide participants with the basic understanding of the role, analytics and process of business planning that lead to the creation of new innovative business ventures, especially regarding those which are generated within an academic environment, on the basis of public research. They will learn and gain direct experience about patents, university-industry collaborations, contract research, starting a new company, marketing high-tech inventions, etc. The objective is to bring participants to have their business model and business plan ready at the end of the course. Participants will also have the opportunity of setting up real proposals for start-ups which they will be able to use for start-up competitions such as Start Cup Toscana or other possible calls launched by Sant’Anna and other universities.
The course is designed mainly – but not only – for participants from universities which are part of the JoTTO initiative (i.e. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Scuola Normale Superiore, IMT Lucca, IUSS Pavia, GSSI L’Aquila, SISSA Trieste). Students from other universities and from EELISA Network can also apply. The course has been designed both for those who are planning to set up an innovative and/or high-tech start-up and for those who might benefit from the course’s contents in an existing company, in their professional activities or in a research context.
The course is organised in collaboration with the EELISA project and Start Cup Toscana.
All information about the course is available at the link: Registrations are now open for the HTE High Tech Entrepreneurship course | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.
Participants are invited to register by sending an email to: andrea.piccaluga@santannapisa.it or giovanni.tolin@santannapisa.it
