Parc UPC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech

Contact:
Cristina Areste - Park Manager

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The Parc UPC is an innovation ecosystem with a high concentration of knowledge and technology, aimed at promoting and facilitating knowledge transfer and the creation, growth and innovation of EBTs.

The park currently houses more than 150 enti-ties and companies from numerous sectors and cross-cutting areas of knowledge and technology.

Infraestructures and Spaces

The Parc UPC has 6 territorial poles distributed throughout the Catalan territory, with spaces for companies, technology and research centres and university-company projects in each of these poles, next to the schools of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.  Each of these enclaves has its own specific infrastructure, forming a global UPC Park that has adequate spaces for each type of company and activity:

• Pre-incubation spaces.
• Incubation spaces.
• Post-incubation spaces.
• Field Spaces.
• Greenhouses.
• Plots of land.
• Tech-test spaces and environments.
• Drone Research Laboratory (DroneLab).

In addition, all the scientific-technological infrastructures and equipment of the university are made available to the users of the Parc UPC.

Support Services to park entities

• Business development services.
• Promotion of research and innovation in connection with the needs of the socioeconomic environment.
• Strengthening cooperation between the different members of the research and innovation system.
• Support the creation of technology-based firms, support the growth and consolidation, and promotion of entrepreneurship.
• Facilitating the achievement of public and private financing.
• Protection of intellectual and industrial property.
• Development of R & D by university research groups or joint research units.
• Employment practices and final projects of students of schools, and dissertations.