Guayacán Group, Univ. of Texas join to boost technology commercialization
“Entrepreneurs do not associate university research as the place to find innovation. On the other hand, university-business technology transfer does not happen for a lack of quality or quantity of results, but because of the weak capacity to train researchers on how to market their inventions and discoveries,” said Juan Carlos Costa, executive director of Guayacán Group Inc.
Constant technological evolution has redefined society — from the way people think and communicate to how government, academics, researchers and entrepreneurs use the industry’s advances. In fact, the phenomenon is so pervasive that experts have coined the term “technopolis” to define how technology commercialization and diversification fuels a jurisdiction’s economy. Stateside cities already defined as “technopolies” include Boston, San Francisco and Austin.
By inviting experts from the IC2 Institute, Guayacán seeks to harness their expertise to determine existing opportunities in Puerto Rico to launch a process of commercialize technology, said Eva Vázquez, senior director at Grupo Guayacán.
The IC2 is a world-renowned interdisciplinary research unit of The University of Texas at Austin that leads research of the theory and practice of entrepreneurship.
“The theories and hypotheses developed at IC2 are tested in life-scale through several world-recognized programs: the Austin Technology Incubator, one of the world’s most prominent business incubators, the Bureau of Business Research, to provide Texas leaders with research data to strengthen the state’s economy, and the Global Commercialization Group, to catalyze emerging knowledge-based economies throughout the world,” according to its Web site.
For more information about the workshop, call 787-641-6028 or visit www.enterprizepr.com.