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Today the newspaper “Expansión” , focused on ecomomic affairs, has published a full page interview with Joan J. Guinovart, in which he draws attention to the weak relations between the economy and science in Spain. “CEOs still fail to appreciate the economic potential of scientific research”, says the director of IRB Barcelona. "Although it is true that", according to Guinovart, “centres of excellence with capacity to generate good results have only been around for the last 15 years, it is only now that we have the means to produce a Nobel Laureate”.
Read the interview (PDF in Spanish)
About IRB Barcelona
The Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) pursues a society free of disease. To this end, it conducts multidisciplinary research of excellence to cure cancer and other diseases linked to ageing. It establishes technology transfer agreements with the pharmaceutical industry and major hospitals to bring research results closer to society, and organises a range of science outreach activities to engage the public in an open dialogue. IRB Barcelona is an international centre that hosts 400 researchers and more than 30 nationalities. Recognised as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence since 2011, IRB Barcelona is a CERCA centre and member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST).
