Spin-Off

To promote business, to support entrepreneurs, to create technology based companies (TBC), also known as spin-off or start-up, in research centres and universities, provides a viable and profitable way for commercialization of research activity results. Currently, this form of knowledge transfer from universities into society is increasing over other  types of transfer and it is based on creating companies and businesses around a certain technology knowledge.

• Spin-off Features
• Legal Issues
• Creation Process
• Business Plan
• Financing

The emergence of spin-off companies is causing significant changes in the Research Centres such as:
establishment of businesses around technologies and knowledge; implementation of infrastructure support and advices for these enterprises; encouragement and awareness of the importance of developing an entrepreneurial culture among researchers, etc.
Lately, this mode of technology transfer is opening a new range of possibilities for universities and research centres to be of fundamental importance in generating employment and society prosperity.