Through joint projects, the UPV-VaSiC Chair collaborates with companies on their microelectronics innovation challenges. It promotes the protection of the intellectual and industrial property (IPR) of the results of the research lines, and promotes their transfer through projects improving the TRL of the results, IPR licensing agreements, and the creation of spin-off companies feeding the national microelectronic companies economic sector.
The Chair also has an innovation and transfer agent coordinated and aligned with the UPV-Innovation Program, to bring researchers together and strengthen transfer resources.
objectives
of the Chair
- To promote the transfer of technology (intellectual and industrial property, know-how) and innovative projects to industry and society in general.
- To promote the protection of research results through patents, semiconductor typographies and software logs, as well as the licensing of these intellectual and industrial property assets to companies.
- To participate in thematic networks enabling the best and most up-to-date technological exchange and encouraging multidisciplinary research at an international level.
- To reconsider the technical advances achieved, and their possible extensions, with a view to their industrial application.
- To encourage the creation of spin-off companies, thus contributing to the creation of a new business community and improvement of employment in microelectronics.
- To seek industrial, national and European partners to encourage participation in projects.
- To advise and inform the government on its subject area.
- To facilitate temporary stays by specialists from other institutions.
startups and spinoff
The involvement of researchers and students close to their projects in the valuation process may lead to the possibility that they create a company to exploit those projects themselves.
We estimate that half of the research results could follow this transfer route and could give rise to a spin-off company.
protection (IPR) and transfer of R&D results
Research results will be identified which may be applicable to innovations of economic and social importance. Those results may take the form of products, processes/procedures, algorithms/software, semiconductor topography designs, or any other form. This process will launch the Transferable Results Statement, the element which triggers the protection process.
Appropriate steps must be taken to determine the ownership of the intellectual and industrial property rights and whether transfers or co-ownership agreements need to be formalised, to identify the mode of protection, to analyse the novelty and inventive step, and to examine whether there are conditions that influence the conditions under which it may be transferred.
All these tasks require the collaboration of the authors of the research result.
In the patent protection examination it may be necessary to respond to State of the Art reports, or the patent offices may initiate official actions to conclude the protection or the maintenance of that protection.