Open innovation & university:
Competitiveness & development

26 & 27 of May, 2008
VALENCIA

In 2002, the UPV aware of the need to offer the university's scientific potential to entrepreneurial innovation and development began a project to create a scientific park called the Polytechnic City of Innovation. Located on the Vera Campus site, on a surface area of 140.000 m2 where research institutes and enterprises conduct intensive knowledge and innovation activities.

At a time in which innovation is a strategic priority in European, international and national economic decision making policy, the UPV considers it vital to take the extra step and unite world-renowned experts in the academic, entrepreneurial and political fields to exhibit tendencies and applications in innovation, and the new open innovation paradigm in the context of a globalized economy. Consequently, experts of world stature such as Henry Chesbrough, Curtis R. Carlson, Andreu Mas-Colell and Eduardo Montes will share their knowledge and experience in Valencia during the celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the foundation of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.