Politecnico di Milano will promote technology transfer processes to unleash so-called ""social-tech"" innovation in the context of the Lombardy Region. Specifically, thanks to the PNRR Financing of the MUSA Project (Multilayered Urban Sustainability Action) Politecnico of Milan will organise in 2024 and 2025 a laboratory of Technology Transfer called ""Impact Speed Date Labs"" involving Local Social Enterprises, Politecnico Researchers, Technologists and Technology Transfer Officers, besides a selected panel of Impact Investors. 

The ""Impact Speed Date Labs"" will enable a networking, alignment of expectations, solutions prototyping and matching between research outcomes, innovative technologies and the identified needs expressed by social enterprises to answer to place-based societal challenges. The Project leverages the previous experience developed in the ""Get It Twice Project"" by Politecnico di Milano and its ecosystem (Get it! Twice - Get it! (fsvgda.it). 

The performance impact indicators available in the Project are: 

• Number of new social-tech enterprises transformed and scaled in Lombardy region thanks to the improvement impact investing instrument offer; 
• Number of meetings and events realised
• Number of participants to meeting and events
• Heterogeneity of stakeholders involved in the ecosystem.
• Number and quality of research outcomes valorised and transferred to social-tech enterprises 

The project will run from September 2024 to September 2025. The identification of partners and actors will take place from September 2023 to September 2024.

The project is covered by the European Funding of the National Plan for Recovery and Resilience in the MUSA Project (Spoke 4, WP 1 ""Best Practice in Finance for Sustainability""), coordinated by Professor Mario Calderini and the TIRESIA Research Group (Tiresia - Tiresia (polimi.it)).

The website Spokes – Musa (musascarl.it) outlines the MUSA overall objectives, partners and timings.