Building Global Innovators (BGI)
Profile
BGI (www.bgi.pt) stemmed out of MIT Portugal program (https://www.mitportugal.org) in 2010 and consists of an American style world-class deep innovation accelerator based in Lisbon (Portugal) with activity in MIT (USA). BGI’s accelerated 149 start-ups have raised over €300M to date.
BGI has been developing collaborative deep innovation programs, the first of which consoling of a 2.8M€ ColAB focusing on Sustainable food systems, Food4sustainability.org.
Competences & Capabilities
- Deep tech acceleration of food-related startups
- Development of Open innovation programs across a wide variety of stakeholders
- Case-based entrepreneurial and innovation learning, summer schools
- EIT Food hub management, communications and outreach and events management.
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