Espaitec has shared the achievements and progress of three projects promoted in 2023: the Technological Map of the Province of Castellón, Innotransfer and UJI.>LAB
Espaitec presented this Tuesday the annual results of its participation in innovation projects carried out with the collaboration of the Valencian Agency for Innovation (AVI). Specifically, the activities promoted and milestones achieved in the projects have been defined. Technological Map of the Province of Castellón, Innotransfer y UJI.>LAB.
The general secretary of the AVI participated in the opening of the session, Olivia Star; the director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the Universitat Jaume I (UJI), Marisa Flor, and the director of Espaitec, Juan Antonio Bertolin.
For her part, Estrella has highlighted the role of science parks, since they have become a reference in the connection between the business and university ecosystem in the last decade, providing support to entrepreneurs and innovative companies and contributing decisively to promoting the cohesion of the different links in the chain.
Likewise, Flor has stressed that one of the objectives of podcast is to facilitate the ideal context where promote and connect with the knowledge generated at the University. For his part, Bertolín has emphasized that, through this type of projects, the concept of cocreative process in which the university community, the business community and society in general participate.
Technological Map of Castellón
Firstly, the results of the project have been presented Technological Map of the Province of Castellón, project led by technology Susana Pérez, which is currently made up of 164 innovative and technological companies, once 9 new firms were identified and incorporated to those of the previous year. Thus, thanks to this initiative, it is possible to identify and give visibility to technological and innovative companies in the province, as well as explore the possibilities of synergies and collaborations between them and with the UJI research groups.
Below has been presented the Innovation Camp methodology from Espaitec, aimed at promoting interaction between organizations and research groups to solve challenges posed by organizations. In this sense, in 2023, 14 meetings have been held in which 7 companies and 14 research groups have participated.
As a novelty, Pérez has announced the results of the program femSTEM, an initiative carried out to highlight women and their activities within the science, technology and innovation sectors of companies in the province, areas in which female representation is minimal.
Finally, the technique Laura Menendez presented the Espaitec Technological Observatory, a technological, competitive and market surveillance service aimed at companies and research groups, especially those in the influence environment of the Universitat Jaume I. This initiative is made up of two tools: the Prisma newsletter, where technological trends are compiled, and the report Technological Focus, where one of the trends detected is analyzed in depth, such as, in the case of the last issue, Artificial Intelligence applied to the water sector.
Innotransfer
Regarding the project Innotransfer, Menéndez has reviewed the sessions held in April and November where the challenges of batteries in the process of industrial decarbonization and the main technologies to promote the electrification of seaports. Innotransfer is a multi-sector initiative of open innovation and collective management led by the five Valencian science parks
UJI.>LAB
Next, Menéndez explained the results of UJI.>LAB Impuls, project led by the Office of Cooperation in Research and Technological Development of the UJI, in which Espaitec actively collaborates in the coordination of the support for proof of concept projects of research groups. Thus, it is worth highlighting the implementation of the green hydrogen production demonstrator of the Institute of Advanced Materials of the UJI.
Next it was the turn of UJI.>LAB Spin-Off, an accompaniment itinerary aimed at UJI research staff that has achieved a result or technological advance with commercial potential and wants to exploit it through creation of a spin-off.
For its part, the technique Neus Fabregat has described the milestones achieved in UJI.>LAB Challenge of the five initiatives framed in this area such as, for example, dispenser, a co-creative project to design and 3D print a set of devices with a simple mechanism for dispensing the thickener doses needed by people with Parkinson's and dysphagia.
Finally, Fabregat has described other activities carried out through the FabLab, the Espaitec prototyping laboratory, that allows the creation of prototypes or proofs of concept, providing solutions to posed challenges. Thus, this year three introductory workshops and one advanced 3D printing with filament workshops have been carried out; a drone construction workshop and a robot creation workshop.
