Presentazione di Andrea Basso CTO MITO Technology e Giancarlo Rocchietti Founder and President Club degli Investitori, per sesta edizione di 4T-Tech Transfer Think Tank, 4 ottobre 2019, Torino

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11. PROGRESS TECH TRANSFER
THE ITALIAN TT FUND FOR SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES

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PROGRESS-TT: A UNIQUE PROPOSITION
Smart-PoC
Sustainability: a large
value-pool
• Large, secular megatrend, which includes
several technology verticals
• Italian academia producing high-quality
research / technology in the field
• The only investment-focused initiative in Tech-
Transfer for sustainability in Italy,…
• …through Proof-of-Concept investment
programs carried out with significant corporate
engagement (leading industrial player involved
early on)
Balanced,
complementary team
• Management Team with complementary
background and skills (tech, business,
innovation management, venture capital, law,
finance)

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SUSTAINABILITY: A BROAD SET OF BUSINESSES IN 3 AREAS, SUBSTANTIALLY IMPACTED BY NEXT-
GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES
Energy
Water,
other
natural
resources
Food /
Agro
• Energy efficiency
• Energy storage
• Energy transmission
• Renewable energy
• Water, soil, air purification
• Sustainable materials /
chemicals
• Recovery / recycling / waste
management
• Organic crops/fertilizers
• Urban agriculture
• Micro-irrigation
Areas
• Smart metering & control systems
• Artificial photosynthesis
• Thermal storage / batteries
• Carbon capture
• Micro-grids, power management
• WTE
• …
• Desalination
• Bioremediation
• Thermal depolymerizing
• Bioplastics
• Insulation / heat recovery
• Green chemistry
• Membranes / filters
• Sensing / industrial process control
• …
• Dosing pumps
• Precision farming equipment
• Controlling instruments
• Sorting machinery technologies
• High efficiency refrigerators
• …
Example of technologies
Δ on total value
2015-2030 *
* Better Business, better world report 2017; AlphaBeta analysis
~60%
~25%
~15%
NOT EXHAUSTIVE
Sustainability

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OUR PROFILES: A FULLY INDEPENDENT TEAM WITH COMPLEMENTARY SKILLS, LOCAL KNOWLEDGE,
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
• CEO and co-founder of MITO
Technology, a leading IP
consulting firm in Italy
• He has been Senior Intellectual
Asset Manager at the Intellectual
Property and Technology
Transfer Department of the
Fondazione Torino Wireless
• He is an expert in licensing
activities in exchange for
royalties and equity in start-ups
and spin-off companies
• Co-author of a book on
technology transfer agreements
and a regular speaker in
workshops and conferences on
intellectual property, licensing
and technology management
• Law degree at the University of
Trento Law School
Francesco
De Michelis
• CTO of MITO Technology
• Former CEO of Sisvel
Technology and CTO of Sisvel
Group
• Recipient of the 2012 AT&T
Intellectual Property Award for
outstanding contributions to IP
while in Bell Labs and AT&T Labs
Research USA (22 years of
research experience)
• Project advisory board member
at Science Park Graz (>20
initiatives sustained in the area
of Sustainability)
• Andrea has been involved in the
development of standards in
several international bodies
including IETF; he has more than
180 granted patents
• PhD at Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, EPFL Switzerland
and Stanford University, USA
Andrea
Basso
• Co-founder of MITO Technology,
a leading IP consulting firm in
Italy
• Professor of Comparative Private
Law at the University of Brescia
and adjunct faculty at the
Department of Management at
LUISS Guido Carli, where
he teaches IP Markets,
Regulation and Law
• Past Head of the IP and TT at the
Fondazione Torino Wireless
• He was legal counsel with the
Office of Technology Transfer of
University of California
• Member of the Academic
Advisory Board of the EPO
Academy in Munich
• J.D. in Comparative Private Law
from the LUISS Guido Carli Law
School. Master of Laws from the
University of California at
Berkeley and Ph.D. in
Comparative law from the
University of Florence
Massimiliano
Granieri
• Professor of Marketing and
Entrepreneurship at LUISS Guido
Carli University in Roma, where
is Director of the LUISS Business
Schools AdVenture programs
(on field education programs on
Entrepreneurship & Venture
Capital)
• He has been actively engaged as
Chairman or Board of Director
Member in many Italian tech
companies (e.g. Banzai/ePrice,
Eco4Cloud, Dove
Conviene/Shopfully) and start-
ups
• Michele served as Chairman and
CEO at Principia SGR, an Italian
VC firm (2010-2014)
• In his career he supervised
around 40 investments and
disinvestments on start-ups,
some of which very successful –
sometime as Angel Investor
Michele
Costabile
• Alberto spent >15 years in Value
Partners Management
Consulting, a leading advisory
boutique
• Prior to Value Partners, he was
in London for in UBS Warburg
Investment Banking, with focus
on the M&A for the technology
sector
• Prior to that he spent 4 years at
CERN in Geneva, the European
Laboratory for Particle Physics
• Board member in selected
companies on behalf of Private
Equity Investors
• Active Angel-Investor, directly
and with Private Equity Investors
and Family Offices (Italy, UK,
Switzerland)
• Master Degree in Nuclear
Engineering cum laude at
Politecnico di Torino and MBA at
SDA Bocconi in Milan
Alberto
Calvo