This week we held the first Bootcamp Launchpad Start UJI 2017 at Espaitec. An action to promote innovative entrepreneurship among the university community organized jointly with the Office of Cooperation in Research and Technological Development (OCIT) y AlumniSAUJI.

During three intense days of work, 8 business ideas promoted by PDI, students of the Doctoral School and former students of the UJI have met at our facilities to try to convert these ideas into innovative business projects. Through three training sessions, the initial concept of each idea has been reflected on to adapt it to the needs of the market using new methodologies for the creation of innovative companies.

Among the participating ideas, two have been promoted by UJI research staff, three by students from the Doctoral School and three by AlumniSAUJI. In the case of researchers, one of the ideas focuses on behavioral monitoring through indoor locations and the other on new technologies applied to conversational commerce.

The ideas promoted by the students of the Doctoral School have focused on a tool for psychological evaluation, a project dedicated to the breeding and fattening of livestock and finally, an insurance brokerage interested in digital transformation. As for the AlumniSAUJI, one of the ideas aims to export paddle tennis to the Australian continent, another is based on offering companies an effective way to generate ideas and recruit talent and another on the generation of knowledge through efficient data management.

This entrepreneurship dissemination action is supported by the Department of Education, Research, Culture and Sports of the Generalitat Valenciana.