The emergence of microfluidics and its many scientific and industrial applications requires a collective response.
To accelerate the diffusion of microfluidics, Elvesys is committed to an open innovation approach to co-build the solutions and instruments of tomorrow. The initiative allows researchers, entrepreneurs, startups and project leaders to put innovations on a fast track to the market.
The emergence of microfluidics and its many scientific and industrial applications requires a collective response.
To accelerate the diffusion of microfluidics, Elvesys is committed to an open innovation approach to co-build the solutions and instruments of tomorrow. The initiative allows researchers, entrepreneurs, startups and project leaders to put innovations on the fast track to the market.
Who is the Elvesys Open Innovation Initiative for?
Customers
Startups
Researchers
Individual innovators
You want to valorize your idea, technology or service model.
Your opportunities
Co-innovation &
joint business opportunities
Boost your innovation through interaction with the Elveflow team, one of the fastest growing hardware startups
Test and receive fast feedback
from the market
Develop a business-effectiveness strategy with seasoned entrepreneurs
The focus areas
• Innovative instruments (in microfluidics)
• Algorithm / automation / machine learning
• Microfabrication
• Soft robotics
• Integration and standardization
• PCR
• Others…
How does the Elvesys Open Innovation Initiative work?
Step 0: Just take 5 minutes to tell us about your idea and its proposed value
1 week later: first feedback
Step 1: 1st feedback → take just 10 more minutes to tell us more about how your innovation works
2 weeks later: second proposal review
Step 2: second proposal review → Let’s sit down together and test your idea on the market
6 weeks later
Step 3: 6 weeks later: the market study is here! → Let’s plan our next strategic moves
Step 4: Partnership agreement
Product launching process
Who are we? Enthusiastic scientists and crazy entrepreneurs!
Elvesys is an innovative, self-funded company that started the commercialization of microfluidic instrumentation in 2011. Elvesys aims to become a key research partner in the microfluidic field. We believe this field will be the heart of next technological revolution. Doubling its turnover every 9 months, in just 4 years our brand Elveflow became the world leader of high performance microfluidic flow control. And we intend to keep moving forward!
Elveflow clients all around the world.
STEP 0: Take 5’ to share about your idea and its proposed value:
Intellectual properties
All intellectual and industrial property rights attached to the filing of competencies, of patents or of response to the call for proposals presented by the project holders remain their property.
The project holder certifies that he holds the intellectual and industrial property rights and, failing, that he has all the necessary authorizations concerning all the intellectual and industrial property rights attached to the project concerned.
The project holder guarantees Elvesys any claim of any kind from any third party concerning all the intellectual and industrial property rights attached to the project presented, as well as their financial consequences, which he declares his personal business.
The project holder certifies that he is not subject to any obligation regarding his project and the various creations to which it relates which could limit his participation.
The filing of a competency, a patent or a response to a call for proposals shall not be construed as conferring upon Elvesys or upon Elvesys’ authorized persons any authorization or right of industrial or commercial exploitation license of such confidential information.
Nevertheless Elvesys will have the right to communicate on the projects as foreseen in the rules of the call for projects concerned.
Confidentiality
Project holders may specify, in their response document, which confidential elements are for the exclusive use of the selection committee, the jury and its experts, confidentiality being guaranteed by Elvesys. However, confidentiality cannot be requested by the project leader on the whole file.
Elvesys, the persons authorized by Elvesys, and in particular the members of the selection committee and those of the jury, undertake to treat as confidential the information indicated as such by the project leader, which they will have at disposition for the examination of the projects. This information may not be disclosed without the prior written consent of the project sponsors.
Each project holder is the sole judge of the desirability and the modalities of a protection of Confidential Information by claiming such rights.
Processing of personal data
The personal information of the project holders collected within the framework of the Elveflow Open Innovation platform is necessary for the taking into account of their participation. They are treated according to the law of January 6th, 1978 modified, known as “Loi Informatique et Libertés”.
In accordance with Article 38 et seq. of this law, any project holder has the right to access and correct personal data concerning himself.
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