The UAB to host the 3rd Catalan Universities Transfer Offices Conference
Next Tuesday 3 June, the Auditorium of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities of the UAB will be the venue for the third edition of the Catalan Universities Transfer Offices Conference. The event will bring together professionals from the university system to reflect on the current challenges of knowledge transfer, innovation and collaboration with the socio-economic environment.
The conference, organised this year by the UAB, aims to generate spaces for debate, exchange and learning among the agents that promote the connection between research and society. It will include conferences, round tables and networking spaces that will focus on the evolution of transfer offices and the need to adapt to an increasingly complex and multidisciplinary environment.
The day will begin with an institutional welcome by Javier Selva, general director of Knowledge Transfer and Society of the Government of Catalonia, and Rosa Maria Sebastián, vice rector of Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship of the UAB. Afterwards, Xavier Vallvé, director of the Office of Knowledge Transfer and Research Valorisation of the UAB, will present indicators and results of knowledge transfer activities of Catalan public universities.
The keynote address will be given by Simon Hepworth, director of Knowledge Transfer at Research England. Entitled “The Future of University Innovation, and How to Get There”, Hepworth will explore the evolution of university spin-offs, the challenges of deep tech funding and public policies to strengthen the innovation ecosystem, based on his experience at Imperial College London and the TenU organisation.
The day will continue with a session on communication strategies to generate impact in knowledge transfer by Ana Cano, project manager of Iuris.doc, and a session on how to design, explain and measure the impact of research and transfer projects, with presentations by Toni Bassaganyas, from the Strategy Area of the CERCA Institution, and Juan Solís, CEO of Arvor.
For more information please download the programme here.
The event includes the support of the University Entrepreneurship Network (XEU) and the Ministry for Research and Universities of the Government of Catalonia.