France Inaugurates Its First TR35 Awards Competition
November 2012 marked the official launch of the TR35 France Awards, now called MIT’s Innovators Under 35 Awards, an annual prize organized in countries all over the world by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Opinno. The award acknowledges the achievements of up-and-coming entrepreneurs whose projects have the potential to change the trajectory of business, technology, and society. It has been a months-long process of networking with leading...
read moreLabco: Innovation in Prenatal Biomedicine
As I introduced on my last post, our most recent commercial launch is a blood test for non-invasive prenatal testing, a test that can assess risk for Down Syndrome or trisomies 18 and 13 with no risk for the mother or baby. This opens a new window to prenatal testing, and represents probably the biggest advance in obstetrics in the history of medicine. But this is not intended to be a scientific publication, or at least not what I should be writing on. And I...
read moreMedellin, The City with ESPACIO
Translated by Conrad Egusa Medellín – the name itself conjures up a sense of story across the world. It is no secret that not only ago, Medellin was arguably the most dangerous city on the planet. The city was home to some of the largest illegal organizations the world has ever seen. However, the strength of good governance and the strong will of the people have changed the city. Today, Medellin has positioned itself as a center of innovation. Most recently,...
read moreGlobal Entrepreneurship Week strikes Mexico
By Celeste North (@celestenorth) of emprende.la As many of you know, Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) was from the 12th to the 18th of November and every year it is celebrated around the world with activities aiming to foster the entrepreneurship culture. Mexico wasn’t the exception, and this year there were several activities happening around the country. Startup Weekend, in particular, has been very popular this year. With the opening of its regional offices,...
read moreDevelopers propel ICT among LATAM farmers
Things can always go a step further, and the Argentineans at the NGO Cultural Association for Integral Development (ACDI by its Spanish initials), can surely attest to that. In August of 2003, and with funding from the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), the NGO decided to promote traceability among small farmers to facilitate their entry into the export value chain. Two years later, after an investment of 1 million USD and the work of 40 developers, they realized that...
read moreSpanish Start-ups visit Silicon Valley
Opinno -Open Innovation- organized the Cleantech Week 2012 from November 5 to 9, in San Francisco’s Silicon Valley, a business encounter for Spanish entrepreneurs in the clean technology sector, with the goal of bringing them closer to the American cleantech market and the entrepreneur and collaborative work environment that is experienced in Silicon Valley. Participants included the winning start-ups of Fundación Biodiversidad’s Emprendeverde contest:...
read moreEntrepreneurship and Passion in Healthcare
Through this series of posts I will be writing for Opinno once a month, I will try to provide a broad view of what I understand are the keys for being a successful entrepreneur in biomedicine. In fact, my own experience -of over ten years now- can be an interesting example for all those wishing to pursue their dream and make a living from their “super idea” related to healthcare. I always like to remember how I found myself initially immersed in this world...
read moreEmtech 2012 Spain is here!!
You can watch Emtech Spain 2012 live on streaming at www.technologyreview.es The second edition of the world’s most important conference on emerging technologies, organized by Technology Review and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Emtech Spain 2012 is on today and tomorrow, in Málaga, Spain. Once again, MIT puts its trust in Spain, betting on Málaga as the meeting point for its conferences in Europe; and I wouldn’t be...
read moreMIT’s TR35 Spain awards 10 young Spanish innovators
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) journal, Technology Review, awards the distinguished achievements of ten, Spanish innovators all 35 years or younger. This year, Technology Review‘s Spanish edition has put in motion the second annual awards ceremony of TR35 Spain. The event seeks to honor the fascinating and inspiring work of young innovators, whose accomplishments are capable of revolutionizing the technological and business worlds in the years...
read moreWorking to Make the World a Healthier Place
Opinno has previously profiled a number of startups that aim to make the world a better place from the perspective of health care and health management. Where do these sorts of entrepreneurs get their training and expertise, though? Today’s post attempts to answer that question by looking at a sampling of the most successful — and perhaps most questionable — health-based entrepreneurships out there. Writer Julianna Davies, who is an expert in what a...
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