1. WHO WE ARE OUR OBJECTIVES AND FUNCTIONS
Members of the Innovation Unit
The Innovation unit is made up of a team of collaborators with extensive experience in research and technology transfer:
- Innovation Unit Director: Carmen Ayuso García
- Innovation Unit personnel:
- Coordinator: Alberto Ortiz Ardúan
- Research personnel: Victoria del Pozo Abejón, Damián García-Olmo, Raquel Largo Carazo.
- Technology transfer management personnel: Isabel Orbis Ramírez
- Clinical and basic scientific personnel to advise and support the Innovation Unit: Dr. J. Esteban, Dra. P. Llamas, Dr. A Celdrán, Dr Cenjor, Dr. Jiménez Alfaro, Dr. S Jiménez de los Galanes, Dr. I Fernández Navamuel, Dra. C Gómez Guerrero, Dr. L Blanco Colio, Dr. Mariano García Arranz, Dr. Juan Antonio Bueren, Dra. Marcela del Río, Dr. Ruiz Tovar, Dr. Francisco Javier Ruiz Hornillos.
- Technology platform personnel: Dra. G. Álvarez Llamas, Dra. R Fernández, M González García-Parreño, Dra. Lucía Llanos, Dra. Sandra Zazo.
- Person responsible for research management: Alberto Montero Manso.
Our objectives and functions
The strategic objectives of the unit are:
- Facilitate the transfer of research results to society and health in general by continuously improving the quality of patient care as well as commercial returns.
- Promote innovative culture in the IIS-FJD health sector and field
- Promote the internationalisation of R&D+i projects
- Provide training to personnel in innovation.
- Identify innovative ideas that can be converted into products or services.
- Support the development of innovation projects (support services for the projects generated, management of intellectual and industrial property, technology transfer)
- Support the intellectual and industrial protection of innovations
- Promote collaboration agreements in R&D+i projects with agents of the scientific-technological field, universities, companies, etc., both nationally and internationally
In order to fulfil these objectives, the Unit performs the following functions:
- Detection of ideas.
- Valuation and protection of ideas.
- Support in the implementation and development of ideas.
- Protection of the results obtained
- Transfer to the market of the results obtained