Mission Sapienza Innovazione is a public-private consortium created in 2006 with the purpose of promoting the links between universities, public and private research centres, trade associations and entrepreneurs. Sapienza Innovazione supports the integration and the marketing of knowledge and inventions generated by scientific activities of the University with a high potential for innovation and commercial use. Objectives The objectives of Sapienza Innovazione are: To promote, activate and participate in the running of Joint Labs which group the relevant university expertise around themes that are easily recognisable by industry in order to address innovation needs and facilitate the collaboration between universities and industry aimed at an effective technology transfer. To create research spin-offs that can operate in sectors with a high technological impact, based on the university know-how and technology transfer and with direct or indirect participation of the university. To assist in the protection of intellectual property rights, including patenting and licensing. To carry out Project Management of regional, national, European and international projects, assist in submission of project proposals (see Calls) and provide technical assistance regarding innovation, technology transfer and applied research.