Meet the participants of this year’s edition of IMAGINE IF Barcelona IMAGINE IF! is Innovation Forum’s pre-accelerator competition for science-based ventures that boasts a truly global reach. The 2019 edition of IMAGINE IF! is already up and running! A pool of experts coordinated by the Barcelona team of Innovation Forum selected nine of the most promising science-basedaaa

Making electricity from plants? The idea may at first seem preposterous but Barcelona-based startup Bioo has actually turned it into working technology, with a number of potential applications. “I want to develop technical things that can create change,” says Pablo M. Vidarte, Co-founder of the company. Bioo’s technology is based on a biological engine that obtains energy fromaaa

Marina Rincon-Torroella is passionate about analyzing and improving the healthcare system. She defines herself as a workaholic; something that we found apparent when we looked at her career path so far. She works at Mayo Clinic and wears many hats. Her main focus at Mayo Clinic is to assist with their business development. Outside ofaaa

It was a geat day, full of highly innovative business ideas. The judges Karolina Korth (Roche), Iolanda Marchueta (Astrazeneca) and Àlex Casta (Caixa Capital Risk) decided among 10 startups to give the first place to MJN Neuroserveis: a wearable solution to prevent epilepsy seizures. Now MJN Neuroserveis has access to the global final, to be held onaaa

The Innovation Forum is partnering with  Johnson & Johnson Innovation and the EBD group in organising the Start-up Slam in Barcelona, Spain. We believe this event offers a rare opportunity for start-up companies from across our global network: to gain international exposure in front of a specialist life-sciences audience, to raise funding from a diverse range of global investors and toaaa

Today we bring you the 10 selected teams that will participate in the local part of IMAGINE IF! in Barcelona. These teams will be engaged in the tailored workshops and mentoring prepared by the Innovation Forum Barcelona team and partners.  Selecting them was a very difficult task due to the high quality of all participants but hereaaa

Do you feel like living a unique inspiring experience? Unleash is the most unconventional meeting of young talent. Organized by Pangea, it is taking place at Circo Price in Madrid on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of June 2016. As an attendee, not only you’ll have the opportunity to listen and engage with 16 of the mostaaa

Innovation Forum Barcelona, in collaboration with IQS Tech Factory is proud to announce that registration for the IMAGINE IF! Barcelona Accelerator is now open! IMAGINE IF! is the first truly global competition and accelerator program for deep technology* organised by the Innovation Forum across our international branches.*deep technology is based on a scientific concept whichaaa

Innovation Forum Barcelona: Oriol, tell us a bit about your background and why did you accept the challenge to move back to Barcelona to create IQS Tech Factory from scratch. Oriol Pascual: My background is as environmental engineer, although I spent most of my professional career as a business developer, working on bringing cleantech productsaaa

In the last 15 years, Barcelona has become one of the most important cities in life sciences and technology research. Sustained funding from the Catalan government and many talent recruitment programs brought top-class researchers and research facilities to the city. Currently, Barcelona is ranked 8th worldwide, in the production of high impact peer-review research articles (per capita),aaa