InduTec

InduTec is a non-profit Technological Transfer Centre created in 1994 in order to stimulate innovation and technology transfers between the four industrial engineering institutions (ECAM - University College L. de Vinci, ISIB - University College P.-H. Spaak, Institut Meurice - University College L. de Brouckere and IWT – Erasmus University College of Brussels) of the Brussels-Capital Region and the enterprises located in the region. As Technological Transfer Centre, InduTec is an important member of the Innovation System set up in 2006 in the region and substantially contributes to the valorisation process. InduTec executes the following main actions : 1. VALORISATION - Exploitation and diffusion of results obtained from research in the University Colleges. The aim is to turn results into economic value in order to create value-add for the Brussels’ businesses. Practically InduTec promotes scientific publications, requests patents, grants licenses, creates new enterprises or spin-offs, etc. 2. R&D FACILITATION - Since several years InduTec answers to increasingly R&D industry’s requests for contracted or cooperative researches. For entrepreneurs or established companies developing technical or commercial prototypes, InduTec is the ideal choice thanks to reduced costs from a financial point of view, and thanks to highly skilled professors and researchers in faculties from a technical point of view. 3. SET-UP OF BUSINESS – InduTec actively participates in turning academic or applied research results into business applications with economic value in order to create new businesses in the region. 4. SUPPORT OF THE INITIATIVES of the Brussels-Capital Region - InduTec makes it possible to help entrepreneurs and companies when requesting financial grants/funds to the Brussels-Capital Region. InduTec participates in industrial technical feasibility study and pre-competing development and, research projects.