To close the CSTO2NE podcast series, Episode 6 looks at what happens when innovation becomes a venture: how university spin-offs choose funding, shape business models, and scale—especially in capital-intensive sectors like construction and cleantech. In this episode, Tomás Navarro Echeverría (Scaphari Ventures) shares common business-model weaknesses seen before fundraising and how founders can fix them early. We discuss when bootstrapping makes more sense than venture capita

Episode 5 of the CSTO2NE podcast series focuses on the “final mile” of innovation: what it takes to move from market readiness to full-scale deployment and adoption in the construction sector. Our guest, Aloysio Gomes de Souza Filho (Federal University of Technology, Brazil and University of Beira Interior, Portugal), explores why technically proven solutions still face barriers at scale. We discuss lessons from real-world low-carbon and CO₂ mineralisation/CCUS examples (incl