About

A new approach to innovation and entrepreneurship

Opinno is a global network of innovation centers, located in the main technology hubs around the world. We work hand-in-hand with the top research centers, universities, technology companies, investors and entrepreneurs to generate new hi-tech start-ups and spinouts, build alliances and help to insource promising technologies.

Opinno builds and cultivates the entrepreneurial ecosystem in all its locations through multiple initiatives that include technology conferences, entrepreneurship competitions, workshops and much more.

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Corporate Structure

OISG: The Open Innovation Strategy Group is a highly skilled, multidisciplinary team of consultants that work closely with the top executives of the main technology corporations by helping them design and implement an open innovation strategy.

Network: The Opinno Innovation Center Network consists in a set of spaces were we work together with entrepreneurs from around the world and host most of our events. This network of “embassies to innovation” is deeply interconnected in order to benefit from our global connections.

Events: Each year we put together a series of technology conferences, entrepreneurship competitions and training sessions in different cities, bringing together the brightest minds and identifying the most promising ideas.

Competitions: Opinno hosts regional editions in different countries of Cleantech Open, IBM Smart Camp, Biotech Challenge and MIT’s TR35.

Conferences: Every year we celebrate the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference, Emtech, in Spain, Colombia, and soon, more countries.

Business Meetings: We run 5-10 programs every year where we train start-ups and large corporations on entrepreneurship and innovation. Most of our training plans include a one week immersion trip to cities like San Francisco or Cambridge Massachusetts (MIT Campus).

Media Group: Our global team of editors and collaborators manages the Spanish and Portuguese editions of the MIT magazine Technology Review and Opinno’s tech news blog. We are always on the hunt for fascinating stories that are new and inspiring.

Other members of the Opinno family

Opinno Capital is the venture capital investment group at Opinno. We fund projects past the prototype stage, which are ready to expand internationally.

Opinno.org is the social part of Opinno, a non-profit organization that focuses on catalyzing the growth of high-social-impact businesses in developing economies.

Opinno Labs is a small software factory, where we build our own ideas, usually in collaboration with our clients and partners. Some of our labs projects also come from our own staff, or from different collaboration programs with universities from around the world.