This is the first meeting of its kind, which has become a space for professional B2B meetings between university and business. The event has been multisectoral and has revolved around the 7 most innovative economic sectors of the moment: energy and environment, health, agri-food, telecommunications, infrastructure and transport and tourism and services.
APTE has participated in the Transfer Forum as one of the collaborating entities, in addition to being an active part of the organizing committee, chaired by Felipe Romera. Likewise, the association has had a stand during the celebration of the Forum to give to know the activity that develop the parks and like point of meeting and networking of the same in the event.
In total, a total of 89 large companies, 94 SMEs and more than 360 research groups from 36 Spanish universities attended the event, to which we must add the 22 scientific and technological parks that are members of APTE.
According to the Malaga Fair Palace (FYCMA), the event has generated 2.500 work meetings and 1.200 researchers and businessmen have participated. Of all the business demand and supply, which amounts to a total of 181 entities, 43% have been companies and park management entities that are members of APTE. Likewise, of the 101 scheduled speaker corners, 24 of them have been carried out by APTE member parks, which represents 23,7% of all the short presentations held.
Some attendees from APTE member parks have told the association that the Forum has allowed them to hold between 8 and 14 meetings these days, with initial expectations of collaboration that are quite positive in the short term.
Likewise, during the Forum, 3 sectoral meetings were held, of which the second of which should be highlighted, in which the president of the APTE Technology Transfer Delegate Commission, Jose Luis Virumbrales, participated, among others. This meeting focused on the transfer of technology and its vertices, the so-called pentagon of innovation.
