Yesterday The New Barcelona Post published an article entitled “Barcelona takes on the challenge of transferring knowledge from classrooms and laboratories to companies”, an analysis of the knowledge transfer ecosystem in Catalonia that brings together the views of academic, clinical, and business agents, including Fractus.

The article highlights Fractus as a spin-off that emerged in 1999 at the UPC and “managed to revolutionize the mobile phone sector worldwide and put an end to the era of external antennas on mobile phones”. It also highlights our collaboration with the UPC through programs such as Fractus-Deep Tech Hub and Next Frontier Founders.

In the words of Carmen Borja, CTO of Fractus: “With these programs, we want to give back to society and tech entrepreneurs the support that Fractus received in its day”. Borja also emphasizes the capacity of the Barcelona ecosystem to generate innovation with impact: “You don’t have to go all the way to Silicon Valley to find technological leaders”, because “from Barcelona, it is possible to develop disruptive technology with impact”.

The report places this momentum in the context of growth in the entrepreneurial pipeline: Catalonia has 287 active spin-offs and is making progress in mechanisms to accelerate their arrival on the market, although challenges remain in financing and technological maturation.

The article concludes that Barcelona “has all the ingredients” to establish itself as a spin-off hub on a European scale if public and private actors continue to work together on the effective transfer of knowledge.

Read the full article in The New Barcelona Post: https://www.thenewbarcelonapost.com/barcelona-entoma-reto-traspasar-conocimiento-empresas/