Climate-KIC highlights climate change at innovation forum in Malaga, Spain. “TRANSFIERE”
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16/02/2015
Climate-KIC was present at a major international innovation forum in Spain this month talk about innovative entrepreneurship, mitigating the impact of climate change and the new low carbon economy.
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) jointly organised a special roundtable session at the Transfiere Forum, an international forum on science, innovation and technology that took place on 11 and 12 February in the Trade Fair and Congress Center of Malaga, Spain.
Climate-KIC’s Jose Luis Muñoz, co-director of the Climate-KIC’s regional centre in Valencia took part in the session and told participants: “The goal is to form a community of experts, entrepreneurs and professionals that will be able to face climate change.”
He discussed Climate-KIC’s achievements in their entrepreneurship activities, and in particular the success of 45 Climate-KIC start-ups have already attracted €59 million between 2012 and 2014. Other participants included representatives of the WEF, former director of the EIT Jose-Manuel Leceta and Spanish representatives of other EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities.
Muñoz also spoke about a new type of innovation: Climate-KIC’s Pioneers into Practice programme. The main objective of this programme is to promote clean technologies and projects through professional mobility.
The Pioneers into Practice programme did not only stir interest in the different countries from the Mediterranean, North Africa and South America such as Morocco and Brazil, but also from multiple Spanish technological platforms: the Spanish Photovoltaic Union (UNEF), the Technological Platform of Sustainable Agriculture, the Spanish Biomass Technology Platform (BioPlat) and the Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology Research (Ciemat).
Muñoz finished his session by emphasizing that “It is important to have an impact together through diversity, open innovation, and collaboration.” The event also allowed for the exchange of ideas between Spanish representatives of the other EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities and to discuss, share synergies, follow-ups, opportunities to collaborate.
Transfiere
Transfiere is the main Spanish event focusing on knowledge transfer between researchers and companies with a highly specialised programme where more than 130 international experts discuss trends and opportunities in innovation from the perspective of entrepreneurship, the dynamic role of technology platforms and internationalisation projects.
The fourth edition of the Transfiere assembled more than 2,300 professionals from 26 countries: Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Belgium, Colombia, South Korea, Denmark, Ecuador, United States, Spain, Finland, France, India, Iran, Israel, Malaysia, Morocco, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, UK, Russia and Switzerland. The meeting has brought together public and private actors linked to ecosystem research, development and innovation.
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