Manuel Palacin is a passionate tech entrepreneur enthusiastic about helping the best technological projects reach society, through innovative solutions. Manuel provides his strong research experience and his entrepreneurial background to unite the world of science and technological research with the world of entrepreneurship, the industry and the investment ecosystem. In recent years, Manuel has collaborated with the Catalan research and innovation ecosystem and with many KOLs from universities, research, hospital centres and public administration to define and execute activities related with research entrepreneurship. He co-founded innovation & entrepreneurship programs such as The Collider Venture Builder and OnCampus under the framework of Mobile World Capital Foundaiton where research teams are joined with experienced entrepreneurs to validate their technology projects with the industry. He has also contributed in the creation of 18 spinoffs and has also assessed +100 tech projects. He also loves generating networks and consortiums, connecting teams and knowledge from different disciplines.