Closure of the Earto Annual Conference 2008, which was organized by Fedit
June 2, 2008
The Earto 2008 Annual Congress, has been closed in which speakers of high level have been common studies and prospects of the convergence of r & d in the European Union. Among them, Javier García Martínez, co-founder and Chief Scientist of the company's technology-based Rive Technology, a spin-off from MIT in 2005 for the marketing of Nanomaterials for applications in the field of energy, has explained to the attending the second day of the 2008 Earto Annual Conference their experience as a technologist and entrepreneur, and has analysed the challenges for the R & d in Europe.
Javier It has also highlighted the importance of being an entrepreneur, and demonstrated how it is possible to create a successful company based in research University. To this end, has pointed out that it is necessary that there should be an environment of innovation, creativity and excellence, as well as a good contact between the Alumni and the University, these are the best agents of transfer of knowledge.
In the closing of the Congress, Daniel González of the Rivera, plenary meeting Deputy Director General of establishment of companies of the Ministry of industry, Tourism and trade, has assured that the technological centres play a key role in the Spanish system innovation, which, on the one hand, participate in public programs competitive, and on the other hand, serving the needs of private companies, being very near their problems real.
Spanish SMEs are at the tail of Europe in as for innovation, and while they have improved in recent years notably, the General direction of SME policy challenge is to improve their level of innovation and reduce the technological gap with Europe. For achieve this goal, Daniel González de la Rivera explained that the centres Technology are very important and that his Department has been very involved actively in the definition of the new National Plan of r & d 2008-2011 supporting the role of the technological centres and getting that this new plan strengthen centres as innovative organizations.
