InnoBusiness Center - the future high-tech center of Timisoara
InnoBusiness Center - the future high-tech center of Timisoara
In the spirit in which the Timișoara University Alliance was created, a first step was taken by submitting for financing the project InnoBusiness Center - Integrated Multidisciplinary Center for research, development and innovation - from lab to market, which entails the creation of a research-development-Innovation (RDI) platform to integrate several areas of smart specialization, namely the construction of a center at the intersection of business market, applied research and technology transfer, in order to support Romanian and international enterprises to increase and mature their capacity to innovate. The project was started with the participation of the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Banat "King Mihai I of Romania", Politehnica University Timisoara and the University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Victor Babeș".
More precisely, we want to build a research-development-innovation platform, with an area of 7200 sqm, composed of four modular pavilions of 800 sqm each and a central pavilion of 4000 sqm for a business and conference center, as well as the endowment of the five buildings with new technologies and equipment, depending on the field of intelligent specialization intended.
The project is coordinated by the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Banat "King Mihai I of Romania", which will provide the necessary land, with an area of 9 ha. Partners in the project are Politehnica University Timisoara and the University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Victor Babes". Each of the universities will bring its expertise and specialists for the major fields of research-development-innovation that will be promoted: InnoFood, BioImpact, BioTech, InnoPharma.
Politehnica University Timisoara will contribute with expertise and specialists in the field of sustainable development in the agri-food industry, biotechnology, bioanalysis, integrated management, water management, drones and high-tech agricultural equipment, robots, innovative technologies, integrated management, bioresources, depollution, modern construction systems and technologies, smart buildings, renewable energy conversion and storage, waste recovery, electric vehicles, new construction materials, advanced materials, etc.
The University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Banat "King Mihai I of Romania" will work mainly on technical solutions, technologies and equipment for the agri-food industry, pumping systems, irrigation, environment and sustainable development, clean technologies for the production of energy from fossil and alternative fuels, environmental protection, etc.
"Victor Babeș" University of Medicine and Pharmacy will bring its contribution especially on the science of medicine, in vitro / in vivo evaluation in the process of designing generic drugs, high performance screening, molecular design, semi-synthesis, biopharmaceutical profile optimization and pharmacokinetics.
"We believe in this partnership and we believe in this common construction in the multidisciplinary field of the 3 universities", said prof. Cosmin Alin Popescu, Ph.D., rector of the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Banat "King Mihai I of Romania".
The rector of Politehnica University Timișoara, associate professor eng. Florin Dragan, Ph.D., added that "The ATU Alliance starts the first year with a major project involving 3 universities out of 4. I am convinced that in this project technology, artificial intelligence or robotics will show their full applicability in fields such as medicine or agronomy. Our universities are thus trying to anticipate the future.”
"It is the first major project in which three universities within the ATU Alliance have identified common points of research and innovation in current fields of interest", added prof. Octavian Cretu, Ph.D., rector of the "Victor Babeș" University of Medicine and Pharmacy.
Within the InnoBusiness Center, collaboration projects with business stakeholders will be identified and partnerships with innovative multinational and entrepreneurial organizations will be developed, in order to promote the expertise held and to involve them in the research environment, so that subsequent collaboration relations to contribute to the development of the business environment, the regional economy and to the increase of competitiveness through technology transfer and innovation. InnoBusiness Center will also help reduce obstacles to collaboration between researchers and entrepreneurs, from the difference in mentality and vision between
