An ecosystem that brings together 25 startups, seven large companies with innovative research projects and Unicamp's Technology-Based Business Incubator. This is how the Unicamp Scientific and Technological Park can be described, a space of 100 thousand m2 urbanized within the University's Campinas campus with three active buildings and two other spaces to be launched later this year.
Managed by Unicamp Innovation Agency, the Unicamp Scientific and Technological Park has just launched a new website, with the aim of being a channel to disseminate its results. “With the expansion of our ecosystem, it was necessary to give greater visibility to partners and innovative projects developed in the Park, so we thought of a website that not only provides this information clearly, but also opens up the opportunity for our partners to collaborate and send us information in real time”, says Mariana Zanatta Inglez, manager of the Scientific and Technological Park at Unicamp.
Among the new features on the new website, it is now possible to discover the projects promoted in the laboratories of companies with Research and Development (R&D) agreements with Unicamp installed in the Park and search by area which innovative startups are hosted or, even, find out which are companies in the incubation process or graduated from the Unicamp Technology-Based Business Incubator (Incamp).
According to Professor Newton Frateschi, executive director of Inova Unicamp, giving more visibility to these partnerships and to the University's entrepreneurial DNA is essential both to strengthen the university-company relationship, and also to present the opportunities of these partnerships to the internal community. “The interaction fostered by the Park is important not only for disruptive companies and startups that want to get closer to the University’s talents and research quality, but also for the Unicamp community, which, in 2019, established 15 R&D agreements with companies installed in the Park for a total value of R$11 million.”, highlights Frateschi about the relevance of the partnerships fostered in the Park.
Another differentiator of the new website is the ease of searching for information such as: spaces available for innovative companies and startups to occupy, auditorium reservations and promotion of events, news and job vacancies at partner companies. The possibilities opened up through communication are also seen as positive by the director of the Scientific and Technological Park at Unicamp, Eduardo Gurgel do Amaral, who highlights the competitive advantages offered to companies located in the Park.
“For companies, the biggest advantage of being at the University is the competitive advantage of partnerships with Unicamp and access to talents that boost business, given that 67% of the 440 jobs in the Park are dedicated to research and development of new products . But we also know that international connections with innovation and technology clusters around the world are factors that increase the advantages of installing in a Science and Technology Park like ours.”, argues Gurgel.
Companies located in the Park also have access to a restricted area of the new website to disseminate content and increase their networking, seen by the director as important in the Park's expansion phase and with the prospecting of new partner companies to set up in the complex. Anyone wishing to browse the Park's new website, with a version in Portuguese and English, must access here.
Published article originally on the Unicamp Innovation Agency website.
