KNOVA

Discover, Connect, Transform
- Do you want to prepare for the future to ensure long term competitiveness?
- Have you identified your partners for open innovation?
KNOVA is the EPFL Open Innovation Platform.
It serves as a portal to our Innovation Ecosystem, helping companies unlock the full potential of its resources and opportunities through tailored guidance and collective intelligence.

Through tailored guidance and hands-on formats, KNOVA opens the door to new collaborations, new technologies and new ways to create impact.
What can you expect ?
One EPFL expert, who works with you, not just for you:
- Scout breakthroughs labs and startups before your competitors do
- Connect & Attract with the right labs, professors, and students talent — not the closest match, the right one
- Fund it with Innosuisse, EU Horizon, EPFL internal mechanisms
- Structure it, from proof-of-concept to long-term research agreement
One person, your entire EPFL ecosystem.
Step into a community of innovation leaders from global and regional companies:
- Spark peer learning, unexpected partnerships, and cross-industry breakthroughs
- Show up to workshops and immersive lab visits
- Stay sharp with dedicated tools and online insights built for industry partners
KNOVA it’s an active programme designed to keep you at the frontier of innovation all year long.
KNOVA puts you where innovation happens:
- Priority access to KNOVA co-working spaces
- Discounts on EPFL executive education and learning programmes
- Preferential rates for EPFL industry events and conferences
Direct line to the people shaping what comes next.
They trust us

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