Academic education and research in Italy are of excellent level, however not enough new enterprises are originated by or near the best research centers, the reason being that although talents abound, there is a lack of entrepreneurial culture.

M31 strongly believe that starting new businesses means being "intelligently courageous" and we also believe that by applying well defined and controlled processes, it is possible to transform all that enormous potential into true economic growth for the entire society. We make available to all our proposed partners an efficient structure and also a favorable and rewarding environment to all those who like the challenge of an entrepreneurial venture.

Partners participate in the new businesses from the very beginning.
The instruments are different in each case and the list that follows is only examples:

• Research and development projects. The partners and M31 both contribute to support the development of new entrepreneurship in the form of a contract in which the ownership of the results is shared in proportion to mutual investment.
• Dedicated financing. The partners provide M31 funds to allow the development of new enterprise and to achieve predetermined objectives; part of the financing will be converted into shares of the new company.

For each new idea and business proposition we define, together with our partners:

• The business plan;
• The development strategy of the relevant new company
• The suitable alliances that can be of help for this particular venture
• The necessary IP strategy and its practical implementation by applying for all relevant patents

We then select the academic centers of excellence featuring technologies relevant to the new business opportunity and define the associated collaboration agreements.

We recruit under-graduate, post-graduate students or PhDs and we support the development phases by our internal team of professionals in various disciplines.

We start the marketing strategy and the new enterprise is developed as an internal division of M31 thus keeping the maximum degree of flexibility to then configure the company well adapted to the real necessity of the business.

The new Company is incorporated when the team is complete and when investors manifest interest; the new company is still hosted in M31’s facilities and exploits all the available synergies with other companies of the M31 Group.

The compensation for M31 activities is in the form of royalties.

At M31 we have defined and we continuously improve processes and methods to keep the entrepreneurial risk under control and to develop high added value and high growth rate new enterprises operating in the global market.

Our potential partners are:

• inventors, proposed entrepreneurs;
• business angels;
• existing companies looking for new markets and new products;
• young graduate or PhDs looking for creative challenges and those who wants to be part in starting new businesses and new companies;
• research institutions with which we develop agreements for technology transfer and for educating to the entrepreneurial spirit;
• anyone who is interested in starting, supporting, contributing, investing in o collaborating with new entrepreneurial initiatives.