Impact

i-Teams Cordoba

i-Teams brings together the brightest students and the university's groundbreaking research to develop commercially viable strategies and build university-industry links. Students learn a structured approach to innovating in which everything is a variable and the product, technology, and opportunities for new ventures can be seen as an act of synthesis. Teams learn to gather evidence that permits a fact-based iteration across multiple application domains, markets, functionalities, technologies, and products, leading to a recommendation that maps a space of opportunity and includes actionable next steps to evolve the market and technology. The reasons we are developing this initiative: There are few cases of successful technology transfer, creation of spin-offs from research fields. There are more ways for promoting the creation of companies than teaching scientists to be more entrepreneurial. There is a need to develop talent for the creation of scientific-technological companies and the commercial development of innovations. Our goals for the program: Implement the i-Teams methodology with local universities to develop talent for the creation of scientific-technological companies and generate links between scientists and local companies. Connect the existing demand for innovation and technology with the offer present in laboratories and universities. Learn about the implementation of alternative practices for technology transfer and the promotion of entrepreneurship in the scientific field. Promote innovation and the creation of quality employment in local companies.