The Pablo de Olavide University (UPO)through its Research Results Transfer Office (OTRI), has launched a plan with the collaboration of Corporación Tecnológica de Andalucía (CTA) to improve the transfer of results from its research groups in the areas of Digital Economy (which includes Data ScienceArtificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Smartcities) y Healthy Living (which brings together Food, Health and Active Aging).

This plan is funded by the Department of Economic Transformation, Industry, Knowledge and Universities of the Regional Government of Andalusia under the Andalusia ERDF Operational Program 2014-2020, within the Specific Objective 1.2.2. “Knowledge transfer and cooperation between companies and research centers” and from the financial programming of measure A1122062E0 “Technology transfer and cooperation between universities and companies, mainly for the benefit of SMEs”.

Since its creation, the Universidad Pablo de Olavide has maintained a firm commitment to making University-Business cooperation an instrument of progress. Its Office for the Transfer of Research Results (OTRI) was set up in 2000 and since then has played an important role in the university’s transfer mission, providing the necessary support to the activity of its researchers with the aim of translating their research into business or social innovation, as indicated in the annual transfer productivity reports.

Thus, the transfer of results is one of the missions of public universities and consists of ensuring that the advances in knowledge and achievements derived from scientific research reach the market and benefit society as a whole, with collaboration with companies being one of the most effective ways to achieve this.