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About us
INBERSO results from the need to optimize information on the financing market for high-tech companies so as to promote the transfer of knowledge and generate value for society, based on the experience gained from the knowledge- transfer offices in the Iberoamerican space of Higher Education and investors specialized in the early stages of technology spin-offs.
History
In February 2004, Santiago de Compostela hosted the Iberoamerican Conference of Provosts, gathering provosts of 200 universities in order to reflect on the complex challenges faced by Iberoamerican higher education institutions in the 21st century, exchanging ideas on the current situation faced by universities and the necessary steps to be taken in order to reinforce the role of universities within societies.
Universities’ representatives are aware of the importance of technology-transfer, as an essential tool to boost companies’ competitiveness and innovation enabling companies to grow and compete within a knowledge-based economy.
Such aim will be attained by strengthening cooperation between the leading knowledge-generators (namely universities and technological centres) and the industry, by means of technological transfer, through cooperative research agreements or research collaborations, financed or developed by the private sector, granting licences or starting-up companies.
Institutional representatives of over 200 Iberoamerican universities signed the Declaration of Compostela, with the aim of creating a Common Space for Higher education in the EU, Latin America and the Caribbean. The signatories committed to encourage knowledge-transfer and to share research findings with the society; to promote research and innovation, encouraging entrepreneurship within universities; and to support entrepreneurs and companies’ creation.
These reflections and conclusions reached at European and Latin American level came to the same conclusion: the need to speed up the transfer of knowledge generated in universities and technological centres, fostering an active and win-win cooperation between public research and private financing.
INBERSO emerged as a response to the above-mentioned needs, as a platform enabling public researchers to have access to private funding.
Inberso’s field of influence: Spain and Portugal in Europe, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, Guyana, Surinam and French Guyana in Latin America.