How to Generate a Sustainable Innovation Ecosystem? A Debate in Global ImasT

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Fifteen Spanish venues simultaneously host the third edition of Global ImasT, a streaming event on technological innovation. The meeting, organized by EGauss, seeks to strengthen contact between researchers and companies to enhance an innovative and sustainable technological entrepreneurship ecosystem.

globalimast-01The event was sponsored by Antonio Garrigues, who highlighted the opportunities and resistances that innovation encounters in a country like Spain. Although he did not hesitate to mention the distance that still separates regulations and paperwork from the needs and reality of researchers and entrepreneurs, he also emphasized the natural adaptability of human beings to advances and how new innovations, unthinkable a few years ago, are already part of our daily lives.

The Madrid Science Park, represented by its general director Alejandro Arranz, participated in the panel ‘How to Generate a Sustainable Innovation Ecosystem’.

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Along with Alejandro, the debate also included Raúl del Pozo, CEO of Cink Emprende; Santiago López, researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Salamanca; and Roberto Carlos Saéz, Project Director of Speen2, the latter via streaming.

The four panel participants outlined the current role played by Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) of Universities and Research Centers in the relationship between researchers and industry, and what their role would be in the new sustainable innovation ecosystem that is sought to be established.

The possibility of following the model of the University of Oxford, which has privatized its technology transfer office through the ISIS Innovation brand, or enhancing Scientific Outreach Units so that citizens understand the value that start-ups and spin-offs bring to society, are some of the proposals that have been considered.

All presentations, debates, and roundtables were broadcast in HD streaming over the internet and are expected to have more than 3,500 in-person and online attendees.

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Daniel Granados, Director CITT Semiconductors
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Luis Benaite, Director of Electronic Warfare Laboratory Funditec
Paloma Domingo, Deputy Director CSIC Foundation
José Antonio González, Co-founder YPlasma
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Nicolai Lavroff, Business Development G2 Zero

Smart health

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Micaela Martelli, Director of Sectorial Solutions Telefónica

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Ángel Sánchez, Medical Director Quirónsalud
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Marta Pedrosa, Innovation Department Cinfa
Felip Miralles, Director of Health Technologies Eurecat
Clément Destoumieux, Spanish Startups Association
Jesús Prada, CEO Horus ML
Raúl Alelú, CEO Healthy Minds

Blanca Caballero, CEO Nanological

Carolina Gago, COO IOT Lenses

Energy vectors and circularity

María Cano, Node Director Greentech Retech
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Jesús Montes, Energy Technology Intelligence Moeve
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Miquel Rovira, Director of Sustainability Eurecat
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Roberto Clemente, CEO Gnanomat
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María Urbano, CEO EvoEnzyme

Institutions

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Félix Zamora, Vice-Rector for Transfer, Innovation and Culture UAM

Mª Inmaculada López, Director Compluemprende

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Carlos Herranz, Coordinator of the Secretariat of State for Digitalization and AI Ministry of Digital Transformation
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