The president of the Canary Islands highlights the Canary Islands public universities as “engines of innovation and knowledge transfer” at the SPIN ON by ULPGC Demo Day
The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo Batlle, pointed to education, research and science as one of the priority objectives of the Government of the XI Legislature. This was conveyed at the SPIN ON by ULPGC Demo Day, which today awards three innovative business models.
Specifically, the president pointed out that the eight teams that present their projects in this demonstration “invite us to continue promoting high-level academic training, advanced scientific research projects and their necessary projection in the economic, social and educational system of the eight islands. ”.
Fernando Clavijo asserted that each of these projects demonstrate that “universities, and specifically the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, are no longer centers where only teaching and research is carried out, but are true engines of innovation and transfer.” of knowledge".
The president of the Canary Islands conveyed the Government's commitment "to the development and progress of the Canary Islands." Precisely, it is an objective that is reflected in the creation of the Department of Universities, Science, Innovation and Culture, supported by the rectors of the Canary Islands public universities, and whose main challenge is that “our universities promote economic diversification in the Canary Islands.” .
Fernando Clavijo emphasized, together with the Minister of Universities, Science, Innovation and Culture, Migdalia Machín, that this determined commitment of the Government to “invest in universities, science and innovation translates into investing in the well-being of our entire society” and will contribute “ to create the pool of scientists of tomorrow.”
The president of the Canary Islands took the opportunity to convey his recognition to the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria because programs “like this Spin ON by Ulpgc only come to certify the hard work that is being done to turn this institution into an authentic entrepreneurial university, as “You demonstrate their recent data on the creation of startups and university spinoffs.” Likewise, he stressed to the rector of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, LLuis Serra, and the president of the Social Council of the ULPGC, Ángel Tristán, the commitment and support of the Government “for this type of initiatives that certify the potential and talent Canary Islands and value projects for the creation and consolidation of companies based on knowledge”, as well as, “the promotion of research, innovation and scientific culture”.
Some of the projects that were presented cover fields such as distribution and marketing of vestibular implant technologies; the development of solutions that combine artificial intelligence and robotics; medical technology products, installation and management of information points located and personalized to the type of user and that allows the implementation of business analytics techniques using lighting as a data link with the user's mobile phone; implementation of comprehensive waste management systems, design and development of citizen participation processes in architecture and urban planning; activities related to the field of electronic engineering and, finally, linked to the industrial aquaculture sector.
