TeSI 2023

Identifying disruptive applications and business models for cutting-edge technologies developed under the ATTRACT initiative can help to address important social needs. This is what Technology for Social Innovation (TeSI) aims to do through multidisciplinary student teamwork. This course brings together business management students from ESADE, engineering students from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and design students from Istituto Europeo di Design. The student teams start by exploring the ATTRACT technology. Three of them were chosen here: Glass2Mass, a glass shaping tech using nanoimprint lithography; HYGER, a sensor to detect much very small cancer tumours; and MEGAMORPH, a reflective-type display with a metasurface frontplane whose pixels can tune the sunlight to reflect natural colors. They then seek out areas of social need where that technology might provide a solution. They will develop a new solution concept and present a proof-of-concept prototype and business model in the Final Presentation of the course. https://indico.cern.ch/event/1258551/