The Science Park of the UV (PCUV), will celebrate next 3 November the fifth anniversary of its official inauguration with an event, presided by the Principal Esteban Morcillo, and attended by leading experts in Innovation within the EU domains, José Manuel Leceta and Román Arjona.
With this commemoration, the Science Park initiates a new stage framed by strategies geared towards improving its services and developing new actions for the consolidation of this ecosystem for innovation created five years ago.
On 4 September 2009, the then Princes of Asturias inaugurated officially the Science park of the UV; a key moment in the history of this area for innovation because it meant to open the doors of a massive building complex destined to fostering coexistence between scientists and businessmen, two worlds which necessary had to come to terms with each other for the purpose of the transfer of knowledge, of the improvement of the productive fabric and of the social and economic development.
The new infrastructures would host large part of the scientific potential of the research institutes of the UV and the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), centres which were giving excellent research outcomes worldwide, and which were awaiting for being placed in some more suitable locations to develop its task more effectively. They would also host spin-off businesses, derived from university research; business projects of scientific-technical basis, and would enable the entry of high added value already consolidated firms, attracted by the opportunity of working in a knowledge generator scientific and academic environment.
Five years later, the Science Park of the UV is an innovation ecosystem geared towards social profitability of knowledge. Loyal to the characteristics of its promoting institution -a public, global, historic university with a remarkable research potential -, the PCUV (Science Park UV) works to link scientific research to the productive system, fostering innovative processes and favouring a productive system competitive and capable of contributing to a knowledge-based economic and social development. This is the very raison d’être of the Science Park and one of the fundamental pillars for the fulfilment of the third mission of of any university institution in the 21st Century: transforming knowledge into economic and social value.
Located on a 200,000 square metres area in the surroundings of the University Campus of Burjassot- Paterna, the PCUV hosts different excellence research institutes, some singular centres and a ever-expanding business area and with high levels of employment. Nowadays, there are close to ninety businesses located in the Science Park. Biotechnology and the TIC (Informational and Communication Technologies), Energy and Environment, Nanotechnology, Materials and Advanced Services are found in the business area of this university and business area which generates direct employment to 1,500 people, mainly higher education degree holders.
Robotics and the TIC, Molecular Science, Material Science, Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Corpuscular Physics, Agro-chemistry and Food Technology are the fields reached by the researching institutes of the Science Park. In this area the Astronomic Observatory of the UV is located, the Images Processing Laboratory, Central Service for Experimental Research and the Spanish Type Culture Collection are also found. All institutes generate work around science, technology and innovation, which are essential for moving societies forward. Work which is brought closer to citizens through different dissemination actions, such as EXPOCIÈNCIA, an Open Day to the public Conference which is held every May in the Science Park, gathering together to more than thousands of people and being one of the main action of social dissemination of science and innovation of the UV.
Next 3 November, scientists, businessmen and institutional representatives and interested public have an appointment in the Science Park to celebrate its 5th anniversary. The event will be presided by the Principal Esteban Morcillo, and will also be intervened by leading experts within the field of the EU: José Manuel Leceta, director of the European Institute for Innovation and Technology, and Román Arjona, economics responsible for the General Directorate for Research and Innovation of the European Committee.
The event, which will take place in the Marie Curie Auditorium, from 11:00 to 13:30, will be open to the university and business community as well as the interested public.
Last update: 28 de october de 2014 09:26.
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