By Institut Catala de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia (ICN2)
The Office of Business and Innovation aims to protect and commercialise ICN2 research results, establish R&D and licensing contracts with industry, new collaborations with the private and public sectors and new networking channels. These innovation instruments link science to market, extend the collaboration network for our scientists, and assure that public science generates resources that feed back into more and better science. Main activities: - Identification and assessment of technologies with commercial potential. - Protection of commercial potential technologies through a specific and well-defined IP strategy. - Marketing and transfer of knowledge, patents and know-how through licensing agreements with industry and the promotion and creation of spin-off companies. - Promotion of collaborations between the industry and the ICN2. - Commercial and scientific consultancy services. - Promotion and dissemination of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in congresses, partnering and other networking events.
