Prof. Daria Tataj is the co-founder of Network Intelligence (nIQ) Academy set up in 2021 by Tataj Innovation and Masood Entrepreneurship Center at The University of Manchester, where Dr. Tataj is an Honorary Professor.

Network Intelligence is a capacity to turn people in your networks into collaborators who help you and your team increase productivity, innovate, and grow with a purpose in mind. Thanks to this system-change methodology, alumni of the Network IQ Academy accelerate their careers and projects in business, technology, and society worldwide.

Dr. Tataj is one of high-level European Commission experts on innovation, a member of the founding Board of the EIT European Institute of Innovation and Technology, Supervisory Board member of EIT Manufacturing, and former Chair of RISE Group which advised directly Commissioner Carlos Moedas. Since 2022, Prof. Tataj is the Vice President of the Triple Helix Association.

Daria has always been passionate about fostering entrepreneurship in Europe. She has taken Tataj Innovation, a Polish R&D and edutech firm, to work globally, and was recognised in 2021 by the Spanish government as one of the women role models shaping the entrepreneurial ecosystem. In 2022 Tataj Innovation became a formal ally of the Spanish government’s strategy “Spain Entrepreneurial Nation”.