Welcome
About us
The Virtual Observatory for Technology Transfer (OVTT) is a on-line platform of information and tools on technology transfer and innovation for business and research created by the University of Alicante, throughout the Office for Research, Development and Innovation, and sponsored by the Santander Group.
We work to facilitate and to make available free online tools to explorer, systematize and implement strategic information on Technology Transfer and Competitive Intelligence for our users, with special emphasis on relations between Europe and Latin America.
The website is available in Spanish, Portuguese and English.
Objectives
- Being a reference on information concerning Technology Transfer and Competitive Intelligence, offering personalized and specialized information to our users.
- Strengthen links between universities, businesses and society, bringing the research capacity and technology of universities to innovation and to businesses needs.
- Stimulate entrepreneurship and innovation culture within the university environment, with emphasis on the creation of technology-based companies (TBC/ Spin-off).
- Improving knowledge transfer capacity of the University to the productive system through the enhancement of relationships: to know the advantages and opportunities of the public-private collaboration, cooperation, the creation of synergies and the implementation of new forms of corporate management.
- Promoting scientific culture and interest for new technologies in the Society.
- To promote relations and exchange of ideas among Latin American countries.
What we do
OBSERVA: Specialised Search Engine
OBSERVA is the intelligent search engine of OVTT. It is a meta search engine which access to information on subjects related to technology transfer and innovation in Latin America. You can search specialized and classified information by several criteria such as keywords, industrial sectors and countries, among others, from reference sources from Latin American R&D.
OBSERVA is performed by the Group of Language Processing and Information Systems(GPLSI) at the University of Alicante (UA). Semantic techniques are used and the latest Human Language Technology (THL) to provide solutions to the business environment and address the problem of collateral management and processing of large volumes of information and documentation from the web. In addition, OBSERVA employs customization features and automation techniques to adjust to the user preferences. Allows the system to learn and constantly improve as users' needs and increase the applicability of the tool and its portability to other environments and needs.
ALERTS: Technology Watch
Alerts are a monitoring system for the user to be informed of technological developments and technological advances in business and industry. You could register and receive updated information selected according to your preferences and interests, through the website or by email. Join the OVTT.
This alert system is linked to OBSERVA and focuses on the extraction of information in business environments. Using techniques of recognition and extraction of relevant data the system lets you automate processes to structure and organize information of interest.
CONTENTS AND NEWS
Browse the contents of OVTT site, a platform of specialized information and current issues of technology transfer and innovation for Latin American countries: Indicators, officers, patents, spin-off, foresight, technology watch, competitive intelligence, marketplaces, cooperation, innovation issues, among others.
If you want to stay updated, we recommend you to follow the OVTT agenda of Innovation and Technology, specialized in events and activities of R&D in Latin American countries, and join our community on Twitter via @OVTT
Contact us
http://www.ovtt.org
SGITT - OTRI
University of Alicante
03 690 Alicante, Spain.
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