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Infinitec Activos wins Senén Vilaró award for best innovative company

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Alfons Hidalgo, founder of Infinitec Activos.. Photo: UB.
 13.12.2013

Infinitec Activos wins Senén Vilaró award for best innovative company

Yesterday evening, the Aula Magna of the Historic Building hosted the award ceremony of the prizes conferred by the Board of Trustees and the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation (FBG). Infinitec Activos, based at the Parc Científic de Barcelona, won one of four of this prizes, the 'Senen Vilaró Award for best innovative company'. This year, the award ceremony and the 30th anniversary of FBG happened at the same time. Antón Costas, professor of Economic Policy at the UB and president of the Circle of Economy, pronounced a lecture to commemorate the anniversary. The personalities who spoke in the ceremony were: the rector of the UB, Dídac Ramírez, the president of the Board of Trustees, Salvador Alemany, and the managing director of the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, M. Carme Verdaguer.


Infinitec was created by two professionals from the commercial sector; they knew that they had to collaborate with research groups at the Parc Científic de Barcelona. The business was set up in 2006 thanks to a loan of 120,000 euros and now, seven years later, the company has an annual turnover of 2 million euros, it employs sixteen people and has forty-six distributors around the world; 80% of its turnover comes from foreign markets. It has a production plant in Montornès del Vallès (Barcelona) and its R&D lab at the Bioincubator of PCB and the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation.

In 2011, Alfons Hidalgo, founder of Infinitec together with his partner Josep Maria Borràs, moved to the United States to invigorate the presence of the company in the country. Hidalgo has arrived to the United States with the professional career that led him to set up this entrepreneurial project.

30th anniversary of the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation

The Bosch i Gimpera Foundation was created in 1983 and has become the catalyst for the link between the university, business and society. The Bosch i Gimpera Foundation (FBG)* focuses on promoting and managing the transfer of the knowledge and technology generated at the University of Barcelona. Its goal is to bring the scientific and technical skills and the results of the research generated at the UB to the market by means of contracts for R+D+i, consultancy services and the protection, valuation and licensing of patents and the creation of new knowledge-based enterprise.

For thirteen years, the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation has managed 206 priority patents (projects which are first patented and introduced in the market during one year) and 134 international patents (particularly scientifically and commercially interesting projects), and signed 69 license agreements with companies to transfer technology. The Board of Trustees and the Bosch of Gimpera Foundation presented these data within the annual award ceremony.

In 2013, contracts and agreements managed by the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation have represented a total of 33 million euros (data collected in November); this figure has increased by 32% if we consider 2012 data. The increase is due to important contributions to competitive projects such as the grants given by the European Research Council (ERC). Concerning business creation, FGB has supported 31 spin-offs for the last ten years. In the field of basic research, it was highlighted that a total of 589 PhD theses have been read at the University of Barcelona in the academic year 2012-2103 (566 were read in 2011-2012).

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