| As an instrument of UB scientific and technological policy, the main aim of the PCB is to link basic research to industrial policy and to foster innovation. In this regard, the PCB offers researchers, entrepreneurs, and society in general a setting of excellence equipped with powerful research support services, research staff, specialized technicians and agents to promote knowledge and technology transfer and the creation of companies.
Furthermore, as an agent for innovation the PCB aims to enhance economic growth through establishing a new economic make-up based on new technologies. Simultaneously, by transferring scientific and technological knowledge to society, the PCB endeavours to contribute to improving scientific knowledge and quality of life.
In this regard, the PCB offers:
Laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art apparatus.
A setting which hosts companies and
public research groups.
Research support services : technology platforms, scientific and technological services, assessment and consultancy service, etc.
Assessment in the creation of new companies, in the protection of intellectual property and in the patent system – in coordination with the Business Division of the Fundació Bosch i Gimpera (Bosch i Gimpera Foundation).
Placing of new companies in the PCB-Santander Bioincubator.
Set up of
mixed research units and PCB-company mixed laboratories
Access to new markets through strategic agreements between Parks
Participation in official programmes. The PCB participates in the official programmes pertinent for its structure as an intermediary in the public innovation system.
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