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UAB Research Park: a strategic alliance to foster

transfer and innovation

April 10, 2014

The UAB Research Park

is a nonprofit organization dedicated to

promoting and facilitating

knowledge transfer

and innovation

What is the Park?

1. Promoting collaborative

projects

2. Spin-off creation and support of

the entrepreneur researchers

3. Visibility and dissemination of

transfer

Promoting collaborative projects

Encourage projects between companies and researchers: Ideas Lab

Management and coordination of R&D projects

Technology demands’ platform

Innovation Laboratory

Looking for funding opportunities for projects

Management and support to the TECNIO centers

Collaboration with the UAB for the university clusters’ management

To make the scientific and technological capacity of the UAB, CSIC &

IRTA available to companies and institutions

Innovation Laboratory

Identification and promotion of new

innovative opportunities for SMEs to

improve their productivity

Specific analyses of firms’

technological needs to set up a

collaborative project based on meeting

these needs

Creation of spin-offs

Training in entrepreneurship

Support to entrepreneurs: Personal advice, completing the business

idea, business plan, legal advice, specialized training

Business incubation

Management of public funding

Search for business investment opportunities

Search of talent and specialized training

Connections to other companies and business organizations

To turn UAB research with market potential into new science or

technology based companies.

Visibility and dissemination of transfer

Edit a digital magazine: UAB Innova

Dissemination and external communication

To show the innovation developed at the UAB, CSIC & IRTA to the

university community and the business environment and institutions

Research in Agrofood Innovation & Human Health for business:

Successful examples

7 spin-offs and start-ups

working in agro-food

TECNIO brings together research and technology transfer centres that are

able to offer innovation and knowledge and technological transfer

services to companies in Catalonia.

Within the UAB Research Park, there are 16 research centres that belong to the TECNIO and 5

are working on agro-food.

5 TECNIO research centres

working in agro-food

One week science to

business course, following

the successful academy of

the University of California

Davis Entrepreneurship

Center, that provides the

participants with the

knowledge on how to

move their research from

the laboratory to the

market.

Second edition: 16th - 20th June, 2014

To international academic researchers and engineers working

in food science, nutrition and health related fields.

Seminars, mentoring and networking sessions.

Thank you for your

Attention!

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parc.recerca@uab.cat

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