May 8, 2024 Barcelona – Fractus, in collaboration with the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC), has launched the From Lab to Market programme through the Fractus-UPC Deep Tech Hub. This program aims to identify and transfer cutting-edge technologies, acting as an essential link between university research and market demands. In this way, the Fractus-UPC Deep Tech Hub consolidates itself as a strategic ally for the UPC in the transfer of innovative technologies with high potential to generate socio-economic value.
Recently launched, the program has selected four innovations developed by various UPC research groups, based on their level of development and patent protection. These innovations represent significant advances in critical areas such as health, telecommunications, and the Internet of Things (IoT), among other relevant sectors.
The technologies identified in the program have a transformative potential in various industrial sectors, contributing to improving industrial competitiveness, bringing new products and services to the market, and fostering economic development.
Rubén Bonet, president, CEO and co-founder of Fractus, highlighted the importance of the program saying: “With From Lab to Market, we focus on bringing cutting-edge university innovation to the market effectively in collaboration with the UPC. We want to be the catalyst that turns brilliant ideas into successful business realities”. Bonet emphasized that the four key innovations identified represent significant breakthroughs in their respective fields.
Dr. Climent Molins, vice-rector for Transfer, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the UPC, described the program as “an additional step in the activity of the University as an active agent in facilitating technology and knowledge transfer, strategically identifying the most priority innovations in demand by the market”.
This program positions the Hub as a specialist in technology transfer between academia and business, transforming ideas into commercial opportunities. It is expected that the program will continue to incorporate new patent-protected innovations gradually in the future.
So far, the program has included four innovations developed by two UPC research groups:
• Development of a cardiovascular health assessment system using common devices, enabling the assessment of physiological parameters related to cardiovascular health using force sensors from everyday electronic devices.
• Design and patent of an electronic cardioarteriograph to measure cardiovascular parameters from unsupervised measurements on hands, feet, and other everyday items, complementing existing technologies.
• Innovation in communication efficiency for 5G networks, restructuring handover mechanisms between mobile networks of different generations without changing mobile telephony standards.
• Development method to facilitate communication between Wi-Fi and non-Wi-Fi IoT devices via software updates.
