The Valencian Innovation Agency and the network constituted by the five scientific parks promoted by the public universities of the Valencian Community (rePCV), have agreed to establish lines of collaboration in line with the innovation strengthening programs promoted by the Agency. Specifically, they have agreed on the constitution of a working group that in the coming weeks will define the joint collaboration projects.
The meeting was attended by the executive vice president of the Valencian Innovation Agency, Andrés García Reche and Juan Antonio Raga, director of the University of Valencia Science Park and president of the network of Valencian Science Parks (rePCV). In this regard, Raga stressed that "the science parks of the Valencian public universities, as agents of innovation, want to collaborate as much as possible with the future proposals that will emerge from the agency".
Together with him, the director of Espaitec (Universitat Jaume I of Castellón), Juan A. Bertolín; his counterpart of the Science Park of Alicante (University of Alicante), Joaquín Marhuenda; the managing director of the Miguel Hernández University Science Park, Tonia Salinas; Miguel Caballero on behalf of the Polytechnic City of Innovation; as well as the manager of the University of Valencia Science Park, Fernando M. Zárraga.
Managed through foundations linked to the five academic institutions, the Valencian Science Parks host almost 40 research groups, CSIC centers and more than 200 companies with an intensive use of scientific knowledge, among them, spin offs.
The five science parks of the region are also a pole for employment. Currently, more than 4,200 people work in its facilities, among researchers and professionals linked to a business fabric with an innovative base.
The rePCV aims to be an instrument to promote the competitiveness of companies and knowledge generating institutions installed or associated with science parks. It also promotes the diversification and growth of a new business and industrial fabric, quality, differentiated and committed to social responsibility policies.