Technology transfer

Doctorats industrials, la triple hèlix en acció (#DoctoratsIndustrials)

By Jordi Villà i Freixa|2026-09-01T09:38:50+00:00June 8, 2014|CBBL News, PhD, Technology transfer|

Diari ARA, 08/06/2014

La recerca bàsica, malgrat el sotrac de la crisi, ha experimentat al nostre país un avenç sense precedents en els darrers 15 anys, i ens ha situat com a pol d’atracció de talent reconegut internacionalment. En paral·lel, el teixit industrial català surt fortament tocat d’aquesta crisi, però per la seva capacitat de resistència i regeneració comença a donar signes de recuperació. Sortosament, són cada cop més els exemples de la integració de l’R+D+I al disseny i execució de processos productius, però encara som lluny d’exemples exitosos d’altres regions. Per obtenir les sinergies necessàries en aquest procés de reflotament, és imprescindible, doncs, un major diàleg entre els mons de la universitat i l’empresa.

És en aquest context que la Generalitat de Catalunya va llançar el 2012 una proposta engrescadora per incorporar talent a les empreses allà on han de reforçar el seu creixement. El Govern va identificar que la transferència de coneixement havia de donar pas a la concurrència d’interessos entre ambdós mons, i és en els recursos humans on aquesta col·laboració universitat-empresa s’accentua.

D’aquest esforç sorgeix el programa de doctorats industrials, en el qual la UVic-UCC té una participació molt activa. De la bona entesa en la triple hèlix empresa-administració-universitat n’estan sorgint propostes que impulsen nova riquesa basada en el coneixement i la seva aplicació que, sens dubte, ens ajudaran a superar aquests moments de depressió econòmica i anímica.

News article on the ActivA project

By Dani|2021-12-20T17:14:30+00:00April 26, 2011|CBBL News, Technology transfer|

The Spanish on-line journal elEcononomista.es publishes an article on the ActivA project.

Design and Management of Research Projects 2010

By Dani|2010-04-19T07:43:20+00:00April 19, 2010|Projects, Teaching, Technology transfer|

Proper project design, management and exploitation are key recipes for success in both science and business. Learning from strategies in the latter environment we can give us new visions on how to propose succesful research projects. This, eventually, will lead to better technology transfer and to a real improve on the society perception of science and on its impact in daily life economy. Within the framework of the MSc on Bioinformatics for Health Sciences we thought, some years ago, that adding a course on project management would be an excellent training for our students, with the perspective to make them aware of the role the society expects researchers to take, beyond the (extremely needed) basic science knowledge.

As the course has a wider scope than just for MSc students, we decided to propose the course as an external activity in which the MSc students are invited to attend.

The new 2010 edition of the course is organized by the GRIB, and it is available for registration and, following the experience of previous years is, doubtless, worth reserving some hours in our busy agenda to attend this extremely interesting and practical course.

Welcome to the new CBBL site

By Dani|2026-09-01T09:40:47+00:00March 17, 2010|Group, Research, Teaching, Technology transfer|

The new CBBL site is designed to provide easier acces to information and in a more dynamical way. After having developed group web sites since my PhD time in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, I have gone through the more or less standard process for a (semi-)advanced user: raw HTML pages, small CGI scripting, PHP/MySQL, Plone and…. coming back to a more reasonable approach using the WordPress PHPH/MySQL based system. I am quite happy with this new approach, as it allows concentrating on the content and not on the technicalities. We’ll see how long it takes to get sick of it, a quite common feature of this who writes.

Using the Blog capabilities of the new CBBL site, I’ll try to make a sense of my view of understanding research when other duties allow me to spend some minutes here. As publicly paid staff, researchers are not free to deliver results in the pace and with the global interest we wish, but the ones that the society deserves. In my view, in the same way we are eager to push ourselves to publish more and better every day, such publications should carry information not just important for our ego, but for the society as a whole. That is why we feel sad when a given article, in which we put so much efforts for so long, is after publication forgotten in a obscure library, be analogical or digital. The interest in publishing with high impact should not be seen as an end by itself, but the constant checking of the pace our publications are quoted by others and influence their work is critical.

Research, however, is “just” one of the three legs of our work as teaching staff in public institutions. The other two, teaching and technology transfer, are at least at the same level, in my view. Thus, the CBBL participates with interest in the teaching of several courses and in transferring technology to the commercial world, in order to give back to the society part of the resources we receive.

Last, but not least, researchers are requested to be critical in any part of their work, with themselves and with others. I’ll try not to betray this maxima and be as caustic as politeness allow. Unfortunately, my English is not as good as my native language Catalan and my Spanish, so other non-scientific opinions will be sent to other personal blogs as well, leaving this for issues related to my professional task.

By now, enjoy reading our production and get involved in those areas of the web site that allow such interaction.

As Catalonia is a welcoming country, this blog is also a welcoming blackboard for opinions related to research. Welcome to your home.