The Foundation's purpose is to ensure the valorization of industrial assets arising from research results within the Idiap Research Institute Foundation (CHE-110.283.515) (hereinafter referred to as "Idiap"), thus contributing to economic development. Idiap's industrial assets cover the results of fundamental and applied research in the fields of advanced computing in the broad sense and artificial intelligence in particular. The Foundation develops collaborations with the economic environment, notably in the form of mandates, partnership agreements, and intellectual property transfers, promoting the exploitation of its research results, as well as the creation of start-ups and spin-offs.