Our team

Those responsible for all this

Francisco Ballester

Deputy Director of the ETSIT of Business, Employment and Entrepreneurship Chairs (UPV). )

Francisco Ballester is an expert in entrepreneurship and technology transfer from the University. He co-founded the company BALMART, one of the first successful spin-offs of the UPV (invested by UNINVEST, ENISA, NEOTEC2, IDEAS 2008 best research company award…) which was dedicated to the design, production and exploitation of electronic systems. Francisco teaches innovation and creation of business models at the ETSIT and has participated in more than 50 contracts with companies from the UPV.

Antonio Martínez

Telecommunications Engineer - Assistant Professor

Antonio Martinez was the winner of the first innovative ideas competition of the UPV (49K), he has attended numerous entrepreneurship initiatives (Summer Schools organised by IESE Business School, iDays of the IDEAS Institute).

Antonio Martinez is an assistant professor with a PhD, but with a background in subjects related to business creation and entrepreneurship. He was the winner of the 49K competition in 2011 and has subsequently been selected for innovation programmes at EIT Health, the Cambridge Innovation Center and as a mentor in innovation conferences aimed at students (IDEAS iDays).

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Alfonso Tedesco

Electronics Engineer

Alfonso Tedesco, a graduate in Electronic Engineering from the University of Calabria (Italy), after almost two years working in the Traffic Control Systems research group at the Universitat Politècnica de València, directs the technical part of the ARGOS project.