REALIZE WORKSHOP OF INNOVATION AND TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE
SANTO DOMINGO. The Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) and the National Office of Industrial Property (ONAPI), in cooperation with The European Union, the African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries (ACP) and University of Alicante, from Spain, celebrated the Innovation and Knowledge Transfer Workshop.
The activity, organized as part of the project Empowering knowledge transfer in the Caribbean through effective IPR & KT regimes (IPICA), was held in the INTEC Videoconference Room, with the participation of representatives of national universities, research centers and institutions linked to the work of intellectual property in the country.
The event was aimed at researchers, entrepreneurs, inventors and managers of intellectual property in order to provide participants with an overview of how to promote innovation and knowledge transfer at a strategic level.
It featured presentations from professionals such as: Victor Gómez-Valenzuela, Vice-Rector for Research and Liaison at INTEC; Ruth Lockward, Director General of ONAPI; Jennieska Alfonso, from ONAPI; Henry Rosa, professor at INTEC; Jofiel Castillo, Center for Support to Technology and Innovation (CATI); Alexeis Fernández, from INTEC; Ayalivis García, UNPHU; Arlette de la Rosa, ONAPI; Inmaculada González, ONAPI; Vladimir Hernández, CEI-RD; Julio Raffo, representative of the Statistics and Economic Unit of the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO).
Universities and Intellectual Property Offices from seven countries have joined efforts to improve the capacity for innovation in the Caribbean region under the IPICA Project, which is funded by the European Commission within the framework of the ACP Science and Technology Program.
The IPICA Project
It brings together 13 institutions from five countries in the Caribbean and Europe and will be developed over a period of three years; aims to streamline Science, Technology and Innovation policies and strengthen the capacity for innovation and regional cooperation for the Caribbean, with a view to strengthening the application of scientific knowledge to improve access to energy and efficiency throughout the region.
It also seeks a better use of scientific knowledge in solving social problems, through the modernization of intellectual property policies, creation of the knowledge transfer capacity and fostering a culture of cooperation between the different actors of the innovation system by promoting support services and good practice projects.
In addition to ONAPI and INTEC, the IPICA Project is made up of the University of Alicante, the Austrian University of Applied Sciences, the Technological University of Jamaica, the West Indies University, the Office for Harmonization of the Internal Market of Spain, the Spanish Patent Office and Trademarks (OEPM), the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mines of Jamaica, the Office of Intellectual Property, Jamaica; the Intellectual Property Office and the Ministry of Legal Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Secretariat of the Caribbean Community.
IPICA project, Empowering knowledge transfer in the Caribbean through effective IPR & KT regimes .