Within the framework of the RIDITT Program, the Italian Institute for Industrial Development (IPI) organized a 2 day training course on innovative financial tools for technology transfer for which Aleardo Furlani, INNOVA’s General Manager, was appointed lecturer. The course focused on promoting the use of the most suitable financial tools for financing innovation projects and high-tech start-up and spin-offs initiatives; providing indications and methodologies to improve “fund raising”, presenting the methods to access the different financial tools and the possible business models from the point of view of the researcher and the entrepreneur: risk analysis, collaborative models of financing, capitalization and warranties.