mVentures, part of the Mobile World Capital Barcelona Foundation, is an initiative to draw international talent and promote the creation of technology-based companies. The Collider Technology Transfer Program is launched to help researchers and technologists to bridge the gap between discovery and commercialization of their technologies to build marketable products and create high growth science based businesses.

Award: 1.000 EUR to be used in further advancing the valorisation of the research.

Evaluation criteria: It will be taken into account that the presented works are still in the research phase. The evaluation (information will be requested for those registering in the award) will consider aspects such as:

1. Business opportunity: Innovation; intellectual property protection; level of development; identification of the necessity or problem to be solved; the value proposition; identification of the potential users, clients or market; close-to-market

2. Product/solution format, expected time-to-market and possible business models: including the general objectives, the intellectual property protection aspects, and the future actions planned.

3. Impact to society: benefits for society, identification of societal needs, involvement of stakeholders needed for its transfer, ethical or legal issues associated to this exploitation