Making use of technology developed by the INFN and by CERN is now a concrete opportunity for many Italian businesses, spin-offs and small hi-tech businesses, who decide to back and invest in innovation. Agreements have now actually been signed between the INFN and the first Business Innovation Centres (BIC), meaning the business incubators and accelerators which applied to participate and were selected to take part in Network R2I, Research to Innovation. Network R2I, is an idea proposed by the INFN and CERN with the aim of supporting initiatives in technology transfer in our country, by promoting development of innovative products and services, starting from frontier technology developed in the field of basic research into particle physics. The BIC network managed by the INFN itself is the hub of the project, which has already taken in the incubators of I3P, of the Politecnico di Torino, the BioIndustry Park of Colleretto Giacosa (Turin), and Cubact of the University of Sassari, which will now have to run a process of assessment and selection to identify the start-ups interested in the INFN and CERN technology and commit to providing support, by means of financing, infrastructures and consultancy for an amount of 40 thousand Euros. The next important date for R2I will be in September, when the Technology Transfer websites of the INFN and the BICs belonging to the network will publish the first call for tenders open to companies interested in joining the project.