It performs the following functions:
- Identifying and recording research results suitable for knowledge transfer.
- Supporting the commercial potential and societal usefulness of the research results.
- Protecting the research results and their management via patents and other forms of protection.
- Proposing and advancing value creation and development processes for the research results.
- Negotiating, managing, and monitoring the knowledge transfer contracts for research results.
- Providing support and advising for creation of enterprises based on research results (spin-offs).
- Promoting and publicising knowledge transfer and entrepreneurship among members of the university community.
- Providing training related to the knowledge transfer process and entrepreneurship.
Programmes
Knowledge transfer accelerator
Intended participants: research groups.
Programme objective: Development of research results to facilitate their transfer to the social and economic environments.
ARGOS Programme
Intended participants: students in their final years of a bachelor’s, master’s, post-graduate, or doctoral degree programme, and personnel from the research groups.
Programme objective: by working as a team and learning by doing, the participants are guided through the process of defining a business idea and assessing their own ability to create a convincing project.
Explorer
Intended participants: those between 18 and 31 years of age.
Programme objective: to provide support, training, and advising during a five-month period, to produce business plans based on technological ideas.
Competition for Innovative Business Ideas and Projects
Intended participants: students, post-graduate students, and researchers.
Competition objective: to encourage creation of innovative enterprises, business innovation, and job generation.
In parallel, the office maintains collaborations with external business-related entities and organisations, such as the School of Industrial Organisation (EOI), Bankinter Foundation, Galicia Open Future by Telefónica, and RedEmprendia.
Competition for Innovative Business Ideas and Projects
Intended participants: students, post-graduate students, and researchers.
Competition objective: to encourage creation of innovative enterprises, business innovation, and job generation.
In parallel, the office maintains collaborations with external business-related entities and organisations, such as the School of Industrial Organisation (EOI), Bankinter Foundation, Galicia Open Future by Telefónica, and RedEmprendia.
Technological enterprises (spin-offs)
Spin-offs created at the Terra Campus, listed by type of activity:
| Nome da empresa | Ano | Actividade |
|---|---|---|
| GIMENA Comprehensive Management of the Natural Environment (GIMENA) | 2002 | Environmental engineering, training, and publication |
| Pexego | 2005 | New information and communication technologies |
| Quescrem | 2006 | Production of dairy products |
| Laboratorio CIFGA | 2007 | Detection of marine toxins |
| AMSlab | 2008 | Chemical and physical testing laboratory |
| LHICA | 2008 | Agrifood solutions |
| Geneaqua | 2012 | Genetic services for aquaculture companies |
| VSonCloud | 2013 | Software development and decision-making methodologies |
| TasteLab | 2015 | Sensory analysis of foods |
| 3edata | 2016 | Management of agroforestry and environmental projects |
| iBoneLab | 2020 | Study on integrating biomaterials into living tissues |