In Western Greece, a state-owned science park helps researchers become business owners. Its most revealing experiment is how to keep that help going when the grant money stops.
A laboratory can prove an idea. Building a business requires rather more plumbing. In Hyderabad and Bengaluru, IKP Knowledge Park has spent decades assembling the missing pieces.
In Trieste, a public research organisation pairs funding with access to microscopes, genomics and computing. Its bet: give difficult ideas the equipment and expertise to prove themselves.
A working prototype is only the beginning. In Sweden’s industrial heartland, Södertälje Science Park helps hardware founders meet the people, suppliers and production problems that come next.