The director of the network warns that “it is in times of uncertainty when we have to bet the most on knowledge”
VALENCIA, 4 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Network of Technological Institutes of the Valencian Community (Redit) will celebrate on November 16 the third edition of its Redit Summit, “a meeting point for technological transfer” in which “real solutions developed by technological centers for productive sectors” and where “the protagonist will be R&D as a factor of business success.”
This is what the director of Redit, Gonzalo Belenguer, explained in statements to Europa Press. The event will make visible the knowledge of the more than 2,500 projects carried out, in collaboration with companies and the support of the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (Ivace), the eleven technology centers associated with Redit: Aidimme, Aiju, Aimplas, Ainia, Aitex, IBV, Inescop, ITC, ITE, Itene and ITI.
Redit Summit will be held at the Oceanogràfic in Valencia and expects to receive around 400 attendees. It will feature large companies from the Valencian Community, such as Iryo, Grefusa, Plastire, Biomecanics, Vibrantz Technologies, The SPB Global Corporation or Lurbel, which will explain their success stories resulting from collaboration with the Redit technology centers. They will be joined by multinational companies that will show their technology transfer models, such as Amazon, DHL, BigBuy, Plug and Play and Kyndryl, among others, and also Correos.
Belenguer highlighted that “the main executives of these companies will be the ones who will first-hand present their collaboration and the projects developed with the Redit technology centers.” The sectors of wood, metal, toys, plastics, agri-food, textiles, biomechanics, health, footwear, ceramics, energy, logistics, transport and the world of ICT will be represented.
The event will address a reference framework of enabling technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, cybersecurity, biotechnology and others linked to the activity of the Redit centers, with the aim of “raising awareness of the importance of continuing to advance in terms of innovation.” and contribute to the Valencian Community being consolidated as a reference region”, stressed the general director of the network.
In this sense, the director of Redit has highlighted that, “according to the latest regional competitiveness report of the European Union, the Valencian Community exceeds the Spanish and European average in terms of innovation.” “It is not enough and events like this, where we are going to bring together technologists, technology centers, companies and the Administration itself, are necessary because they lead us to that change of course, to that turn to be able to continue betting on innovation and improve people’s quality of life,” he added.
Furthermore, he highlighted that the Redit Summit will complement the companies’ testimonies with those of “great Valencians who are developing projects in various fields at an international level.” One of them will be José Carmena, professor of Electrical Engineering and Neuroscience at the University of California-Berkeley, co-founder of Iota Biosciences and “one of the great world leaders” in its field.
The researcher Verónica Sanz, distinguished with the Beatriz Galindo Cathedral of the Institute of Corpuscular Physics, and Cisco senior manager José Ángel López Mayor Alas, among others, will also participate, Belenguer has highlighted.
“They will come to tell us about the cutting edge, future, trends and provide the framework for our industries, companies and centers to address future challenges in a collaborative manner,” Belenguer emphasized.
This year’s edition of the Redit Summit comes at a time of global uncertainty, both economic and geopolitical. “Precisely, it is in these moments when we have to bet the most on innovation and knowledge,” Belenguer stressed.
According to the director of Redit, the analyzes show that, “in the last great economic crisis of 2008, those countries that continued investing in R&D, such as Germany, emerged from the crisis in just nine months; those other countries that stopped investment in “It took us years to get out of the crisis, like Italy, Greece, Portugal or Spain.” Therefore, according to Belenguer, the data “validate the need to no longer maintain, but rather increase, investment in innovation.”
In addition, he has highlighted the role of the network’s technology centers as “large fundraisers” for the Valencian Community. “In the last year, thanks to the participation of the Redit centers in collaboration with companies in European and national programs “, 145 million euros arrived in the Valencian Community, mainly aimed at companies,” he detailed.
Thus, with a productive fabric in which the vast majority of companies are SMEs and microSMEs, Belenguer has emphasized the role of technology centers as “intermediary agent” between innovation and them.
“It is more than necessary not only to reinforce the proximity of the industrial fabric to the technological centers, but also to carry out an authentic pedagogy or dissemination of the need of society itself to decisively bet on R&D, the society of innovation, of knowledge and technology as a basis for the future”, defended Belenguer.
