Biotechnology companies and TIC

News - 2010-09-23

According to data produced by the Open Innovation platform INNOGET, the biotech sector is the one that demands more R&D solutions, 45% of the total demands, followed by the TIC’s, 25%.The balance, 30%, is shared by the chemical, food and environmental industry.

Concerning the supply, the sector giving more R&D solutions is the engineering, covering 35%. The second and the third place are for the biotechnology (25%) and telecommunication (15%)

Mataro (Barcelona) 27th September 2010.   According to data gathered by  Innoget, the first Spanish Open Innovation platform, the companies that request more R&D solutions are the ones belonging to the biotechnology sector which accumulates 45% of the demand for solutions, followed by companies in the TIC sector (25%). The balance, 30%, is shared by the chemical, food and environmental industry.

Innoget statement is based on the data gathered at their Open Innovation platform, Innoget.com, where the scientist community and the technological industry meet to propose solutions to the technological demands and were their projects and innovations are posted.

The platform hosts  companies and research institutions from most sectors and therefore it provides information on the existing R&D demand in the various economic segments and the solutions  the market offers and are published by companies and scientists through Innoget. According to the data produced by the platform, the sector that provides more R&D solution is the engineering, 35% of the supply. The second position is for the biotechnology companies, 25%, and the third one for the telecommunication companies which cover 15% of the market.

About Innoget – http://www.innoget.com 

Innoget is an Open Innovation marketplace pioneer in Spain and Europe, already being used by companies such as Roca, Pascual, Air Products, Orange, Panrico, Damm, Vodafone, CAPSA,... as well as  Spin offs, universities and research centres such as the Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona or the Centro Tecnológico Ascamm.

Through Innoget, those organisations and their collaborators cooperate to develop and share R&D&I projects and results, they post their innovative patents, products and technologies. The target is to generate contacts that would end in joint R&D projects and technology transfer or patent license agreements.

Innoget is based in Barcelona but is present in more than 40 countries and used by over 170 companies belonging to 16 industrial areas. Via Innoget they can:

• Receive technological demands from other companies seeking innovation partners. 
• Post their technological offers (innovative patents, products and technologies)
• Post their technological demands to find technological partners who will help to solve them.

On the other hand, the scientific community can contact directly the heads of R&D&I to introduce them their innovative patents, products and technologies.