29/03/2012

On March 27 VHIR organized an informative session about the importance of knowledge transfer in Biotechnology. It was the first one of a series of meetings directed the scientific community of the Vall d'Hebron. The director of the VHIR, Dr. Joan Comella, opened the session indicating that this wants to be a space of informative and also formative, as well as a way to exchange experiences that help us to know better what's going on at Vall d'Hebron in terms of innovation and transfer."The aim of these meetings is to help to show keys to investigate, to develop or to transfer. To be able of realizing the critical aspects in which we can advise or accompany as innovation unit", assured Dr. Comella.Each session will be led by the staff of the innovation unit and will count with the intervention of an external expert that will be able to contribute the vision of how it's been applied what we are dealing with. The guest of the first session was "http://www.vhir.org/DDGRecerca/DOCENCIAACTIVITATS/2012/2012_0060/2012_0060_005.pdf" Domingo Jaumandreu, senior adviser in competitive strategy, who spoke about the chain of value of the transfer and the importance of incorporating the agents who will be involved in the transfer of the results in initial stages of the investigation and the development. "http://www.vhir.org/DDGRecerca/DOCENCIAACTIVITATS/2012/2012_0060/2012_0060_006.pdf" Cecilia López, responsible of business development at VHIR, talked about the importance of protecting the results to be able to commercialize them and of how the patent can help to spread the results at the same time that is protected and guaranteed the possibility that others can't use it freely.