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In the "II Foro Universitario de Unidad Editorial", held in Madrid, Joan Guinovart explained what, in his opinion, are the basic requirements to make progress in technology transfer in Spain.
For the director of IRB Barcelona, a centre that hold the Severo Ochoa Award of Excellence , the following are needed: “Science communicators, patent lawyers, people who use both scientific and business language, and entrepreneurs that want to invest money to transform knowledge into wealth”.
In the event, Guinovart was joined by authorities representing the university, business, and political sectors, who debated how to go about the knowledge-based transformation of Spain.
Read the news in El Mundo online
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).
