The Eurecat technology centre has increased the transfer of technology to companies and has built a portfolio of more than 250 highly innovative patents that can be licensed to transform them into market solutions, representing growth of 11 per cent compared to 2024. It has also stepped up its activities in the valorisation of technological assets and in the search for investors for its spin-offs.
Eurecat is taking part today and tomorrow in the Science for Industry (S4I) fair, where it is showcasing 10 demonstrators in the fields of health and biotechnology, energy, new materials and agri-food, with the aim to present Eurecat-owned technologies to companies and present success stories that illustrate how these technologies are being transferred through spin-offs, licences or access rights, as a result of its multi-technology capability to transform and drive new industrial processes and business models.
Among other areas, Eurecat has licensed technologies in sectors such as materials processing, digital health, dietary intake monitoring, energy consumption behaviour prediction, printed sensing and intelligent data management on Internet of Things (IoT) platforms.
Coinciding with the Science for Industry fair, Eurecat’s Director of Valorisation, Àngel Garcia, explains that between 2022 and 2025, the technology centre “has raised €3.5 million in capital rounds for its portfolio of spin-offs and has made progress in validating several technologies aimed at the creation of new technology-based companies, with the support of industrial and financial partners”.
According to him, Eurecat has also established “stable collaboration agreements with other national and international institutions and has promoted singular initiatives such as the investment fund and accelerator, together with Mobile World Capital, Additio Riva&Garcia and IMEC iStart”.
In this regard, he specifies that through its presence at the Science for Industry fair “Eurecat is also seeking to establish contacts with potential clients for these technologies and with investors who may be interested in participating in the capital rounds of its spin-offs, in fields such as innovation in medical devices, sustainability and decarbonisation, as well as in other initiatives”.
Valorisation, a lever for transferring technology to companies
Eurecat’s Valorisation Area “leads the process of identifying technological assets in order to bring them closer to the market, through a process of analysis and maturation that concludes with the licensing of the technology to a third party or with the creation of a technology-based company”, emphasises Eurecat’s Scouting Manager, Laura López.
All this is possible because “Eurecat invests resources in the strategy for protecting these technological assets in order to properly secure intellectual and industrial property (IP) rights, which make it possible to enhance their value when transferring them”, points out Cristina Arilla, Head of Eurecat’s Industrial Property Unit.
Eurecat’s valorisation activities focus on the detection of assets and in their protection from an intellectual property perspective, market validation and analysis, support in the packaging of assets, the establishment of pilot agreements with early adopters and, finally, their transfer to a third party.
