Specialists analyze the business and scientific potential of microelectronics in the Valencian Region

The Science Park of the University of Valencia (PCUV) organizes on June 21 an event in the framework of the Innotransfer open innovation program to analyze the challenges of the microelectronics sector and the microchip industry

In a horizon marked by the challenges of the chip industry, the Valencian Community represents one of the microelectronic design poles in Spain as a whole, accumulating more than 60% of all national activity in the semiconductor sector. Some of the most important multinationals have established headquarters in the Valencian territory, attracted both by the logistic facilities and the talent pool of the universities.

This is the framework for the new Innotransfer event, the open innovation program promoted by the Agència Valenciana de la Innovació (AVI) in collaboration with the Network of Valencian Science Parks (rePCV). This conference, organized by the University of Valencia Science Park (PCUV) on Wednesday, June 21, is part of the Enabling Technologies area, in response to the priority challenges identified by the AVI.

This face-to-face meeting, which will take place in the Marie Curie Auditorium of the PCUV, is presented as an opportunity to present the companies, research groups and organizations that contribute to the progress of the sector in the Valencian Community, in addition to offering a broad vision in the national and international framework, incorporating the participation of Valencia Silicon Cluster, the Multisectoral Association of Spanish companies of Electronics and Communications (Ametic) and the Chip Missions of the Center for Technological Development and Innovation (CDTI).

During the conference, the current context defined by the PERTE of Microelectronics and Semiconductors will be addressed, in addition to presenting an overview of companies working in the sector and linked to Valencian science parks, such as Analog Devices, Würth Elektronik, B&R Automation and EMXYS, among others, and also of various lines of research currently being developed by Valencian universities.

The first part of the event will address the perspective of companies linked to Valencian science parks through a round table composed by Javier Calpe, Design Center Manager of Analog Devices; Jorge Victoria, Senior Product Manager EMC Shielding & Thermal Materials of Würth Elektronik; Marcos García, Office Manager of B&R Automation; and José Antonio Carrasco, CEO and co-founder of EMXYS.

Likewise, collaborations and aid to promote the Valencian Community and the Spanish territory in the microelectronics industry will be analyzed in the presentations by Mayte Bacete, director of Valencia Silicon Cluster; Eduardo Valencia, head of the Microelectronics Sector of Ametic; and Emilio Iglesias, head of area of the Department of Institutional Promotion and Territorial Cooperation of CDTI.

In addition to the business and sectorial vision, the conference will include the participation of research groups linked to the microelectronics sector in the Valencian Community, with the voices of Càndid Reig, professor of Electronic Engineering at the ETSE-UV; Cristina Roldán, researcher at the Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol) of the University of Valencia; Carlos Mariñas, researcher at the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC), a joint center of the UV-CSIC; Roberto Llorente, director of the Nanophotonics Technology Center of the Polytechnic University of Valencia; and Daniel Torrent, researcher at the Optics Research Group (GROC) of the Universitat Jaume I of Castell.

The conference, which aims to meet the challenges of the Valencian business network and research groups in the field of microelectronics and semiconductors, will culminate with a presentation by Luc Yao, operating partner of TAcc+, an accelerator of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan.

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