UA

The University of Alicante was founded in 1979. It is a public, dynamic, and innovative institution with international projection and a reference campus. Currently, it hosts over 30,000 students. With more than 240 research groups and 18 research institutes, the UA is considered a reference point for many companies that it provides R&D services to. The research developed by the scientific community of the UA annually results in the development of more than 600 research projects, over 60 doctoral programs, and nearly 600 scientific articles.

The Results Transfer Service – OTRI (STRI) is responsible for all liaison activities with the business sector and aims to increase cooperation between the university and companies.

This service, through the Area of Relations with Companies, provides companies and entrepreneurs with a “business information desk” regarding research activities, projects, and applicable technologies to the business sector. The main goal of this area is to connect companies with researchers to facilitate the development of R&D projects and seek technological solutions to potential business needs.

The UA has a wide range of technologies and knowledge from different fields available to the business sector, including:

  • Agrobiotechnology.
  • Chemical technology.
  • New materials and nanotechnology
  • Waste valorization.
  • ICT and robotics.
  • Health.
  • Environment.
  • Etc.

In the following link, you can access the entire catalog of technological offers organized by application sectors: http://innoua.ua.es/Web/OfertaTecnologica

In the following link, you can access the set of research groups existing at UA, as well as information regarding their capabilities, technologies, and the research lines they are working on: http://innoua.ua.es/Web/Actividadinvestigadora

  • DESCRIPTION: Public university with more than 240 research groups, 18 university research institutes, and over 1,500 research lines applicable in various industrial sectors
  • BUSINESS LINES: Intensive in R&D&i in agri-biotechnology, chemistry, biology, pharma, biomedicine, ICTs, automation and robotics, engineering, architecture, etc.)
  • INFRASTRUCTURE: Reference campus with international projection
  • PERSONNEL: 4,000.
  • BUDGET: 5,000,000 euros/year (public-private funding)
  • PROJECTS: develops more than 600 R&D&i projects per year.
  • INTERESTING DATA: has an office (OTRI) to facilitate the transfer of knowledge and technology from the university to companies

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