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Transfer
One of the CIBER’s main aims is to transfer the knowledge generated by its researchers, so that its research results can be developed in protocols, services and products for improving clinical practice and people’s quality of life. To this end the CIBER Technology Transfer department acts as a liaison between its researchers and companies, private institutions, public research centres and other innovation agents to make cooperation with them more effective and ensure that the results of research are actually implemented. Work is done in several approaches in order to achieve this objective:
• Continuous contact with our researchers to monitor their results and train them in managing innovation.
• A Technology Transfer Session was arranged for this purpose on 29 and 30 November 2016 as part of the 30th anniversary of ISCIII. At this event experts in different areas shared their knowledge
on industrial property, company creation, licencing processes, venture capital, grants for internationalisation, etc..
• Protection of the results of research and management of cooperation with other agents, as is vouched for by the application for patents and signing licence contracts, amongst other agreements.
• In 2016 eleven new patent applications and a registration of software were thus submitted at the CIBER. Seven inventions are also in the patentability study and one in the drafting stage, and these are expected to be submitted in early 2017.
• Eight licence contracts have also been signed and in 2016 different negotiations that are expected to end successfully in the first quarter of 2017 were also got under way.
• Specifically in the area of Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine, three new patent applications have been submitted and one invention is in the patentability study stage. Four licence contracts have been signed with companies for marketing technologies in the BBN area.
• Presentation of the results of research and technological capacities of our groups in technology transfer sessions. Amongst many other measures, and merely as an example of this, CIBER had a stand attended by members of institutions at BIOSPAIN 2016 (28-30 September, Bilbao).
• Support for creating technology-based companies derived from CIBER groups.
• Other activities involving innovation, public-private cooperation and industrial and intellectual property.
• In the CIBERBBN area contracts with consultants for furthering transfer and translation of results have been signed.
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