First Industry 4.0 Startup Week at La Salle Technova

From February 18^th  to 22^nd  at La Salle Technova, the Startup Week took place. During this week, 10 innovative Startups involved with Industry 4.0 were selected around the world to offer potential solutions to face the challenges of 8 large enterprises in order to benefit from each other and disrupt their markets.

It made part of the QUICK CHALLENGES RESOLUTION program organized by ACCIO and La Salle Technova Barcelona .

The selected startups were IoTium , Zolertia , WiTraC, ChainGO Tech, DiagSense , Stockare , Flythings , Nexiona , WearHealth , Energyly , and the corporations were Celsa Group,  Mercabarna , Schneider Electric , Ecoembes , Novartis, Idilia Foods , Serunion, Semillas Fitó .

“We have generated cross-innovation dynamics among companies so that they can rub and see how they can collaborate together”, said Javier de la Ossa, la Salle Technova Director.

On Friday 22 all group have visited Mercabarna (Free Trade Zone) and the Celsa factory (Castellbisbal).

The next steps is the phase of 'proof of concept' where startups and the corporations will continue working on their own to develop the relationships forged during the week at La Salle.