π Tender Overview
Institution held the first edition of the National VinculaTech and brought together more than a hundred attendees.
More than a hundred attendees, representatives of academia, companies and the State, participated in VinculaTech Nacional 2023, an event organized for two days by Concytec to promote technology transfer and innovation in the country.
During the meeting, the challenges to achieve coordination between these sectors were identified. The deputy director of Innovation and Technology Transfer of Concytec, Alfonso Accinelli, highlighted that the main challenge is to generate trust. Along these lines, he indicated that VinculaTech is a space that allows industry and academia to come together to identify their technological supply and demand.
International speakers
The event featured the participation of national and international speakers, such as Fernando Hentzschel, representative of the Production Promotion Corporation (CORFO) of Chile, who addressed tools for technological management. Likewise, Karla Trejo, Official of the Northwest Biological Research Center (CIBNO) of Mexico, gave the presentation, addressing challenges of linking value chains through innovation and technology.
The experts shared their experiences and presented practical tools to promote research, development and innovation (R&D&I), such as project formulation, intellectual protection, strategies to commercialize technologies, among others.
It should be noted that it is essential that the research generated by the scientific sector has a favorable impact on society, through technological transfer to companies, producer associations, and in general to the productive sectors, which allows them to be more competitive. in the market.
Institutions such as ProCiencia, the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA), the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), the Lima Chamber of Commerce, Indecopi, Bioactiva, the Technological Institute of Production (ITP) also participated in this great event. and the National Institute of Health (INS), offering workshops and training to attendees on their areas of specialization.
As part of the final reflections, the speakers highlighted the need for research, inventions and innovations developed at the national level to generate a social impact, under the focus of sustainability and care for the environment.