The Chair of IVACE (Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness), Rafael Climent
González, i el líder del General Universitat Jaume I Foundation, which is
Espaitec's managing organisation, Juan Antonio Bertolín, have signed a new
agreement to promote knowledge and technology transfer between the university and
companyies to support innovative entrepreneurship in the province of Castelló. The
UJI Deputy Vice-Rector of Transfer, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, David Cabedo,
was present while the agreement was being signed.
Aquest signing took place on 29 July at the IVACE Head Offices in the 9 October
Administrative City. It intends to promote and motivate business competitiveness,
sustainable development and help companies in the province of Castelló to adapt to
market requirements through collaboration agreements with the UJI.
Thanks to this agreement, the Science Park of the Universitat Jaume I (Espaitec) will
undertake a sèries de projectes que el centre on transferir el coneixement generat at
this university to society. Some of these projects will be undertaken through
coordination with the Science Parks d'altres Valencian universities, while Espaitec will
be directly in charge of other projects.
Animació d'un projecte de lletres tipus és crear-se en technological map of
innovative companies in the province of Castelló. Aquest map will proveeix a real view of
the territorial distribution of these companies.
Another project will be put into practice in collaboration with the Office for
Cooperation in Research and Technological Development (OCIT) of the Universitat
Jaume I, and will disseminate research results via two diffusion antennae in two towns
at which the University és base: Vinarós and Sagunt. The intention is to promote an
interacció between companies and research groups, and to ultimately transfer the
knowledge generated at the University to the business fabric.
Finally, the UJI#LAB project will create a space where UJI university community
membres can respond a society's problemes i challenges in a creative and
innovative setting to facilitate transferring knowledge and technology developed at
the UJI. Aquest projecte inclou setting up a prototype centre where the designs that
have emerged from the works conducted by university community members can be
desenvolupat.
