The “free market” of innovation, knowledge and intellectual property: this is how it could be described Trampoline Networkthe Argentine platform (unique in its kind worldwide) that connects the research of graduate and postgraduate students and research groups with companies and SMEs to the search for solutions for their problems.
The trampoline goal is to accelerate the processes of linking and technological transfer both local and international, integrating blockchain technology To guarantee traceability, security and trust.
The forecasts, for now, are auspicious: the potential universe of Latin American students and researchers to which the platform can access reaches five million. “We are talking about Five million people thinking of solving companies outside those organizations, ”says the founder and CEO of Trampoline Ginés Perea.
“Contacts between researchers and companies have already been taking place for a long time, but usually occur in an informal way, ‘linges’ one by one with a nearby university,” explains the executive. And he adds: “What differentiates this platform is that it facilitates communication between the parties, in addition to classifies and orders all the data regarding investigations that they are being carried out in universities, including information that the houses of studies themselves do not have on their network. ”
But the proposal goes further, because companies and researchers have there the possibility of connecting and initiating conversations and negotiations that are drawn on the platform, with which The whole process is safe both for the creative part of the idea and for the buyer, which often require confidentiality. In other words: it is “custom open innovation.”
The platform – which charges universities and companies a very low commission and “only in success” – proposes a more agile, dynamic and accessible model even than that of incubators, since it does not require bureaucracies, patents and law of lawyers. “He Messi of innovationthat could be anywhere in the world, – Perea asks – what highway does he have today to tokenize an idea and try to transfer it? ”
The story behind the project
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Already as a boy, Perea came up with ideas that tried to patent: one of them was a gradual design light to avoid cars chain. “The bureaucracy and the search for investors became impassable obstacles. And so All these projects ended up in drawers”.
“From there arises trampoline. The goal is that university students, researchers and professionals who have ideas, but may not have channels, find a effective path to market your intellectual creations”, Says the founder of the project.
Trampoline in milestones
It was in 2024 that Trampoline developed and implemented the platform that, based on blockchain technology, allows Tokenize intangible ideas and assetsprotect intellectual property and modernize the way in which solutions are activated from knowledge.
For now, the company already signed a memorandum of understanding with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and also part of the IDB and AMCHAM Lacnet, which consolidates its regional and international projection.
Another fact that evidences the confidence generated by the model is that Trampoline received investment from angels investors, as well as a public-private credit in Spain.
Let’s talk about achievements
Trampoline today has agreements with more than 60 universities in Latin America and Europe, including the University of Buenos Aires, CONICET, ITBA, the University of San Andrés, UNAM of Mexico, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Scholas Occurrentes Foundation, created by Pope Francis.
Universities that make up the platform can register academic research, divide their rights, transfer and market them through Smart Contracts, thus facilitating their global circulation. Along these lines, Trampoline works together with academic institutions and centers offering services ranging from technological link to the licensing of patents and & d developments.
Knowledge and productive sector: the meeting
More than 30 active conversations exist today on the platform between innovators and companies of the most diverse and of different sizes. And more than 400 scientific profiles And technicians have already connected with public and private actors through the network, tokenizing their developments.
The company Spanish technology GMV He launched through Trampoline an innovation challenge that already reached more than 120 universities and teams in the world that actively work in their resolution. Also the Startup Epiliquid, incubated within the National University of Cuyo, achieved an investment of a fund (confidential) through the network.
The municipality of Gualeguaychú developed an air quality study with a Tucumán team: both were connected by Trampoline. And Banco Galicia is launching a pioneering service next to the platform: the tokenization of university thesis for customers as a way of visible knowledge with market value and, to whom they do not have an account, to offer them the possibility of starting the link with the opening of account and the bonus token.
Finally, YPF is launching the first open innovation challenge, intellectual property and blockchain, which Trampoline will convene the more than 5 million individuals from their network to propose solutions to the most urgent problems, such as water and renewable energy issues, among others.
A moving community
In the Board of the project collaborate referents such as 4., María Fernanda Hurtado of Global Intellectual Property Association, as well as representatives of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Perea emphasizes the very high level and human commitment that the entire team puts at stake to accompany the linking processes. “Trampoline – he concludes – is not just a platform: it is a community in motion that is changing the way in which knowledge is transformed into solutions, opportunities and real impact.”
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