i2T equipment
Fernando Conesa Cegarra | PhD, RTTP
Head of i2T Service, Director of UPV Innovación
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Diego Martínez
Penadés
R&D and transfer technician. Data analyst.
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Irene Jiménez
Arribas | PhD, RTTP
SPIN UPV Program Manager and support in the creation of spin-offs
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María Nicolau Sanus – PhD
R&D promotion and transfer technician.
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Laia Bielsa Ferrando
Health Innovation Agent
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José Zayas García
R+D+i Promotion and Transfer Technician
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Cristina Alemany Lázaro
Software licenses
Commercialization of patents
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Mª Carmen Rodrigo Aliaga | PhD
Head of Promotion Section
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Elsa Domínguez Tortajada | PhD
Industrial Property Technician
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Inma Cano Garcia
Administrative Management
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Sila Durán Ortega
Industrial Property Technician
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Our philosophy
In i2T we work with the passion to convert the capabilities and research results of the UPV into innovation that benefits society, helping researchers in this process.
We build relationships
Innovation requires relationships with different agents.
We protect knowledge
This is the core. To turn research into innovation, the useful knowledge generated must be identified and protected.
We have purpose
Innovation serving the needs of people and the environment.
Some history
At the end of 1988 the UPV created the Technology Transfer Center (CTT) within the framework of the program for the creation of Research Results Transfer Offices of the first National R&D Plan. From its beginnings, the CTT was characterized for being a dynamic unit for the involvement of professors in relations with companies, and a contributor to the entrepreneurial and innovation culture promoted by Rector Justo Nieto. With a team that shared these values, the CTT was at the forefront of the OTRI movement in Spain;
From the CTT emerged the Graduate Training Center and the IDEAS Program. In 1996, CTT, CFP, IDEAS and the Integrated Employment Service were aligned in the Center for Relations with the Socioeconomic Environment (CERES), sharing an administrative and economic management unit. This model did not prosper and in 1999 each unit took its own course in different Vice Rectorates.
During the first decade of the 21st century the CTT grew in size and accompanied the organization of UPV research in research institutes and the development of the Polytechnic City of Innovation as a science park of the UPV;
The management burden that this growth entailed resulted in 2016 in a division of the CTT into two units: the Research Management Service (SGI), for the more administrative tasks, and the Research, Innovation and Transfer Promotion and Support Service (i2T), more focused on the transfer function and which assumed the status of OTRI of the UPV.
Since 2017 i2T began to build, together with the Polytechnic City of Innovation Foundation the UPV Innovation project that, over time, and driven by the new Vice-Rectorate for Innovation and Transfer, was adding staff related to innovation and transfer of various units both central and research institutes of the UPV. Since 2024 UPV Innovation is the Knowledge Transfer Office of the UPV, registered in the Registry of OTCs of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
Throughout its history as CTT, i2T or UPV Innovation has played a prominent position in the environments related to knowledge transfer in Spain, Europe and Latin America.