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.