Technology Transfer Ecosystem
Published on 27 November 2018
Portugal
Norte
Head of department
About this good practice
The Centre for Nanotechnology and Smart Materials - CeNTI, is a research institute, placed in Portugal, that provides, in a business to business approach, applied R&D, engineering and scaling-up production of innovative functional & smart materials and devices. The technological ecosystem, of which CeNTI forms an integral part, aims to enhance and increase the competitiveness of Portuguese products/companies in national and international markets, through innovation, increased productivity, value creation and incorporation of technology into the productive processes of national companies, by means of knowledge and technology transfer from academia to industry players, in multisectorial technology lines. The dynamization of this regional ecosystem, namely in the NUTII region Norte, stems from coordinated actions promoted by Academia, RTOs and industrial stakeholders (ranging from industrial clusters, to industrial associations and industrial stakeholders), also Municipalities and Societies associations promoting high-level technical and scientific employment, joined in clustering activities for individual industrial sectors, but also from the promotion of continuous inter clustering activities.
Resources needed
Financing of Clusters and Inter Clustering must be promoted via implementation of funded thematic cross-networking and workshops (typically linked with the dissemination of KETs), and linked with base-funding programs for academic research centres and Interface Centres (CITs).
Evidence of success
- The practice showcases the need to create critical mass in NUTSII regions based on a mutual technological support network, i.e., combining the more dynamic industrial sectors with researchers from academia and CITs, integrating and promoting activities jointly the municipalities and industrial clusters, and searching for opportunities via routinely inter-clustering activities that bind the several stakeholders;
- Furthermore, to implement such dynamics, the regional RIS3 strategy must contemp
- Furthermore, to implement such dynamics, the regional RIS3 strategy must contemp
Potential for learning or transfer
This practice is for sure potentially interesting to be applied in other regions. The network generated by the continuous synergies being established between technology providers and industrial technology integrators, promoting swift and oriented KET dissemination and integration into new industrial applications and products for the market, is an excellent showcase how scientific/research and business/industry can positive and dynamically cooperate.
Further information
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Organisation
CeNTI - Centre for Nanotechnology and Smart Materials
Portugal
Norte
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Head of department