Innovation Centers in Poland - Portal Innowacji
Innovation Centers in Poland - Portal Innowacji
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Center for <strong>Innovation</strong> and Technology Transfer,<br />
University of Warmia and Mazury <strong>in</strong> Olsztyn (CIiTT)<br />
address:<br />
ul. Prawocheńskiego 4, 10-957 Olsztyn<br />
tel./fax: +48 (89) 523 39 00/+48 (89) 523 49 00<br />
e-mail/website:<br />
ciitt@uwm.edu.pl/www.uwm.edu.pl<br />
created: 2007<br />
area: 130 m 2<br />
chief executive:<br />
Wojciech Samulowski<br />
contact:<br />
Ewa Dąbkowska, PhD<br />
technology<br />
transfer centers<br />
The ma<strong>in</strong> goal of the Center is the creation and development of systems of <strong>in</strong>formation, consult<strong>in</strong>g and tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g<br />
services <strong>in</strong> the field of commercialization and shar<strong>in</strong>g scientific and research offer<strong>in</strong>gs, while also stimulat<strong>in</strong>g the<br />
bus<strong>in</strong>ess sector’s <strong>in</strong>terest <strong>in</strong> the technology and service portfolio of academic <strong>in</strong>stitutions.<br />
CIiTT promotes <strong>in</strong>novations and academic entrepreneurship, organizes tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> the area of technology transfer<br />
and knowledge commercialization, and cooperates with regional, national, European and global partners. It is<br />
a member of the Enterprise Europe Network, comprised of nearly 600 organizations from Europe, USA, Ch<strong>in</strong>a,<br />
Chile and Russia.<br />
To date, seven <strong>in</strong>ternational technology transfers have been completed <strong>in</strong> the fields of renewable energy sources,<br />
dairy science, mach<strong>in</strong>e technology, poultry farm<strong>in</strong>g and geodetic survey<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> such countries as Switzerland,<br />
Germany, France, Belgium and India. Moreover, over 270 organizational and technological <strong>in</strong>novations have been<br />
implemented <strong>in</strong> enterprises from the Warmia and Mazury region.<br />
The Center <strong>in</strong>itiated a new policy on the regulation of <strong>in</strong>tangible assets which has been implemented at the<br />
University of Warmia and Mazury <strong>in</strong> Olsztyn.<br />
In 2009, the Center’s “Regional transfer of knowledge of the University of Warmia and<br />
Mazury – placements of employees and graduates at companies” project was recognized<br />
as a leader <strong>in</strong> implement<strong>in</strong>g regional <strong>in</strong>novation strategies <strong>in</strong> the “Research potential<br />
(knowledge creation and development)” category.<br />
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