Technology Transfer
A new Prototype Laboratory has been created. This is a technical service aim to help researchers in the development of functional prototypes, in order to validate technologies and increase their TRL. Fabricated prototypes will also help in the commercialization of the technologies as they can be shown to companies and investors.
In 2023 we filed 6 priority patent applications covering the 3 application lines of the institutes research: sustainable energy, low-cost and efficient electronics and smart nanomedicine and health.
We created one spin-off, LabsinLove. The company is developing new boron compounds for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) against cancer. In 2023, the R+D services and agreements reached a total funding of 630, 000€ and we signed 26 NDA/MTAs with different collaborators, companies and laboratories.
Two of our technologies were presented in TRANSFIERE 2023 in the prototype’s showroom of CSIC. We also showed our technologies in EXPOQUIMIA, in the booth of the Advanced Materials Cluster (Clúster MAV).
In 2023 the first edition of an entrepreneurship formation programme in collaboration with PRUAB was given. 2 groups participated in the European funded S3E programme to increase entrepreneurship.
4 groups have become members of H2CAT a network of researchers working on hydrogen. H2CAT promotes the transfer of the knowledge and technologies developed by its members.
CSIC has launched the CONVERGE platform to facilitate the transfer of knowledge to society, through the generation of links of trust between CSIC and the agents of the innovation ecosystem. 5 groups from ICMAB participate in the first edition of the EBTON and 2 groups have been funded with 50,000€ to strengthen their spin-off project.