The Polytechnic City of Innovation, Scientific Park of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, will host the award ceremony for the VI rePCV Awards on July 11 at 12 noon
For the sixth consecutive year, companies linked to the R&D&i ecosystem of Valencian public universities will collect the awards from the Network of Valencian Science Parks (rePCV). Of the more than 300 companies linked to the five Valencian science parks, there have been a total of 39 companies have submitted their applications to qualify for the prizes.
The call has three modalities: “Spin-off Award”, “Start-up Award” and “Business-University Collaboration Awards”. Each type of prize will have one winner and up to a maximum of two second prizes for each of the categories.
The winners will be announced by publishing the rePCV awards on the website. The gala and formal presentation of the rePCV awards will be held on Thursday, July 11 at 12 noon at the Polytechnic City of Innovation. People interested in attending the event can access registration through the event page.
A gala of innovation and entrepreneurship from the university
The specific purpose of these awards is to recognize the activity of entrepreneurial and business initiatives in the Valencian Community linked to Valencian public universities, attending to your growth, innovative character, business strategy and contribution to the environment.
The gala for the presentation of the VI rePCV awards will open with the welcome of Juan Vicente Capella, managing director of the Polytechnic City of Innovation; Juan José Cortés, general director of Innovation, and Tonia Salinas, president of the Valencian Science Parks Network. Subsequently, Juan José Cortés and Ester Olivas, general director of Entrepreneurship and Internationalization, will present the new IVACE+i lines for companies and in terms of innovation.
The event will feature a presentation by Mayte Bacete, director of Maxlinear Hispania and president of the Valencia Silicon Cluster, who will present the success story of collaboration between the university and the company. In addition, the gala agenda includes the performance of Francisco Pedroche, researcher at the University Institute of Multidisciplinary Mathematics and winner of the I UPV Scientific Monologues Contest.
After the awards ceremony, the gala will be closed by Salvador Coll, vice-rector for Innovation and Transfer, and María Esther Gómez, regional secretary of Universities. At the end of the gala there will be a networking lunch in the blue cube hall of the Polytechnic City of Innovation. The venue will exhibit a selection of UPV start-ups and spin-offs that participants will be able to visit at their stands.
Reward entrepreneurial and business initiatives
With these awards, the Valencian Science Park Network It seeks to contribute to the development and consolidation of companies created and developed with the support of the five Valencian science parks, as well as to promote and enhance the entrepreneurial spirit within the five Valencian science parks and strengthen University-Business relations.
The initiative is integrated into the framework of the agreements that since the Ministry of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism The science parks of the public universities of the Valencian Community subscribe to strengthen interconnection in the Valencian scientific, technological and business fields.
With an honorary character, the awards will consist of trophies, of which one prize and up to a maximum of two second prizes will be awarded for each modality. The companies that obtain the award in each of the three categories will have the right to request up to two tickets to Transfer 2025. Additionally, the Polytechnic City of Innovation, as the organizing park of the sixth edition of the rePCV Awards, plans to offer the award-winning companies the possibility of participating in the Valencia Digital Summit 2024, an international technological meeting.
Spin-off, start-up and Company-University collaboration award
In the first category of awards, "Spin-off award"The aim is to recognise companies promoted by Teaching and Research Staff (PDI), doctors or PhD students that have been created through the exploitation of research results and that are linked to any of the Valencian science parks.
For its part, the category "Start-up award» is aimed at innovative companies promoted by students or alumni of any of the Valencian public universities. These companies must be located or linked to any of the Valencian science parks and be established after June 30, 2019.
Likewise, the "Company-University collaboration award» is aimed at companies that participate with any of the Valencian public universities in R&D programs and/or projects whose results have contributed to establishing a close and ongoing relationship of collaboration, as well as to the development of the Valencian economy.
The formal presentation of the awards will be held at the gala held in a public event in the blue cube auditorium of the Polytechnic City of Innovation on Thursday, July 11, 2024 starting at 12 noon.
Network of Valencian Science Parks
The Network of Valencian Science Parks (rePCV) is an entity formed by the Miguel Hernández University Science Park; Espaitec, Scientific and Technological Park of the Universitat Jaume I; the Science Park of the University of Valencia; the Polytechnic City of Innovation-Universitat Politècnica de València, and for him Alicante Science Park-University of Alicante. The objective of the rePCV is to increase the wealth of the region, promote the culture of innovation and foster the competitiveness of companies and knowledge-generating institutions installed in or associated with science parks. Also, promote the diversification and growth of a new business and industrial fabric, quality, differentiated and committed to social responsibility policies.