The PNO Group (aka PNO Consultants), established in 1984, is a European group, made up of a pool of more than 400 professionals across 9 Member States. Every year, PNO supports more than 4.000 clients in their R&D processes, realizing original data-driven and expert-driven analysis and creating over 300 cutting-edge R&D projects – changing the world for the better. PNO has drafted and successfully executed dissemination and exploitation plans of a great number of European projects in various sectors. PNO supports clients from concept definition to execution of their innovation projects. Experts help clients conceive, analyse, develop, finance and implement innovation ideas by connecting them to PNO’s network of relevant projects and partners, boosting innovation. Experts identify technologies and stakeholders, assist in consortium building, support technology transfer and go-to-market strategies and disseminate results to the right communities. PNO’s road to success include 4 main steps: Ambition, Development, Funding, Impact.
Innovation Place, a service by PNO, is the Open Innovation platform supporting collaborative research through the matching of pre-screened R&D projects, qualified organisations, and public funding opportunities. Through this platform it is possible to:
· Access information on European and National funding programmes for research and innovation
· Browse project ideas and collaboration opportunities, and propose your organisation as a partner
· Search for highly qualified partners for your research projects
· Receive a free listing of potential public funding opportunities for your research projects
· Access networking opportunities and disseminate research project results
· Manage your research projects portfolio through our platform
In this project, PNO is represented by CIAOTECH S.r.l., the Italian branch of PNO Consultants, specialized in R&D Advisory, Innovation Management and funding procurement, providing consultancy services to private and public organisations and TTOPSTART, PNO’s science and business consulting company that serves leading researchers and innovative companies in the fields of life sciences, medical technology and healthcare.
