BIND SME

Join the Initiative to Solve Real Industry Challenges

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What is BIND SME?

Through the BIND SME initiative, innovative Startups discover current industry challenges and get immersed in the cooperative Basque Entrepreneurial and Innovation Ecosystem through Open Innovation. Participating Startups earn reputable reference customers while working on paid contracts implementing solutions in real environments for one or more leading local companies.

The goal of this public-private BIND program is twofold, to bring startup clients by presenting their disruptive solutions to SMEs in order to boost digital transformation and face their technological challenges.

The driving force of BIND SME is to use the BIND Open Innovation Ecosystem and platform model to facilitate innovation projects between Basque SMEs and startups. BIND SME generates new opportunities for collaboration following the model of industrial challenges and the Open Innovation model of the BIND Platform.

Startup Benefits

Real Projects with Real Turnover
Facilitated Access to Market & SMEs
Rapid Implementation of Solutions
Reputable Reference Customer
Positioning and Visibility
Maintain Technology Ownership
BIND Proven Success Model
Join the Basque Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Startups benefit from the active participation of innovative companies seeking targeted solutions to joint challenges defined by the SMEs.

What type of Startups should apply?

Startups that are no more than 8 years old, that present the use of new technologies to improve industrial processes and that are ready to accelerate their business development.
Startups with new technologies, that have already completed their technological development. In other words, Startups that have a product or solution that can be tested, proven, or is already available on the market.

Startups and Scale-ups with disruptive solutions that can be applied to the Clean Energy, Advanced Manufacturing, Environmental, Construction, Design, Automotive and Food industries, including: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, Computing, Cybersecurity, Artificial Vision, IoT, 3DPrinting/ Additive Manufacturing, Collaborative Robotics, Nanotechnology, New MAterial, ARVR and so much more!

3rd Edition SME and Cluster Organizations, Looking for New Technologies

The SMEs that form the BIND SME are active members of different Basque Clusters and leaders of reference in their sector. This year, 18 SMEs are looking for innovative solutions to respond to the new challenges faced by the industry in its digital transformation process, through the application and development of disruptive technologies.