{"id":21906,"date":"2025-05-07T15:38:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/?p=21906"},"modified":"2025-05-07T15:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:42:15","slug":"the-university-of-barcelona-and-the-bosch-i-gimpera-foundation-leaders-in-scientific-entrepreneurship-in-the-health-sector-in-catalonia-and-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/news\/the-university-of-barcelona-and-the-bosch-i-gimpera-foundation-leaders-in-scientific-entrepreneurship-in-the-health-sector-in-catalonia-and-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"The University of Barcelona and the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, leaders in scientific entrepreneurship in the health sector in Catalonia and Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report prepared by the Bot\u00edn Foundation and Inveniam Group highlights the key role of the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.ub.edu\/es\/\">University of Barcelona<\/a> (UB) and its knowledge transfer office, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/es\/\">Bosch i Gimpera Foundation<\/a> (FBG), in promoting scientific entrepreneurship in the health sector in Catalonia and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The study, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/fundacionbotin.org\/publicaciones\/evolucion-y-tendencias-del-emprendimiento-cientifico-del-sector-salud-en-espana\/\">Evolution and Trends of Scientific Entrepreneurship in the Health Sector in Spain<\/a>, analyzes companies emerging from the public research system between 2001 and 2023, highlighting the contribution of the UB and the FBG to this ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the University of Barcelona ranks second in Spain in terms of the number of spin-offs created in the health sector, with a total of 19 spin-off companies between 2001 and 2023. The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) leads the way with 21 spin-offs.<\/p>\n<p>The document also highlights initiatives such as the Proof of Concept of the <a href=\"https:\/\/f2i.fbg.ub.edu\/\">Fund for the Promotion of Innovation<\/a> (F2I) of the University of Barcelona and the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, which offers grants of up to \u20ac25,000 to validate and promote UB technologies and bring them closer to market requirements. This grant is supported by Banco Santander.<\/p>\n<p>The FBG, as the UB&#8217;s knowledge transfer office, has been instrumental in achieving these results, facilitating connections between researchers, companies, and investors, and promoting the creation of new innovative companies.<\/p>\n<p>This recognition reaffirms the commitment of the UB and the FBG to knowledge transfer and innovation, consolidating their position as leaders in scientific entrepreneurship in health in Catalonia and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;&lt; You can consult the full report here \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/fundacionbotin.org\/publicaciones\/evolucion-y-tendencias-del-emprendimiento-cientifico-del-sector-salud-en-espana\/\"> Evolution and trends of scientific entrepreneurship in the health sector in Spain<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report prepared by the Bot\u00edn Foundation and Inveniam Group highlights the key role of the University of Barcelona (UB)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21906"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21909,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21906\/revisions\/21909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}