Top 500 Innovators is a 9-week training program at world’s most renowned universities (Shanghai ranking) for top Polish researchers and employees of technology transfer centers. Since 2011, 270 Top Innovators have been trained at Stanford University (Classes: 40.1, 40.2, 40.3, 40.5, 40.7, 40.9, 40.10) and 150 Top Innovators at University of California, Berkeley (Classes: 40.4, 40.6, 40.8, 40.11).
Top 500 Innovators Science-Management-Commercialization is a prestigious governmental program (funded by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education), which purpose is to train Polish leaders from various scientific fields with the skills needed to manage cooperative research projects and bring high-technology products to the marketplace. The idea of the program is to improve the qualifications of Polish R&D experts and researchers and increase their participation in the growth of the economy, research management and commercialization of the research results.