USP and Institute for Energy and Nuclear Research Launch New Business Incubator
On April 4th, Unit II of the USP-IPEN Incubator was inaugurated on the USP campus in the Capital. With 29 public and private institutions involved, the objective of the new space is to attract and host innovative ventures related to the Life Sciences area, encouraging the participation of startups .
Rector Carlos Gilberto Carlotti Junior welcomed the initiative, which values entrepreneurship at the University: “USP needs to always be linked to the desires of society, its needs and the desires of our young people. I believe that, next year, we will have many possibilities for our students to experience this moment of innovation here at the University”.
The project has the support of the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology (Cietec) and the USP Innovation Agency (Auspin), with assistance from the Support Foundation for the University of São Paulo (Fusp) to carry out renovations in the space and financing the São Paulo State Research Support Foundation (Fapesp).
Regarding the importance of the new Incubator unit, Auspin coordinator, Luiz Henrique Catalani, highlighted that “we are opening this space as an extension of the USP-Ipen incubator, but it will have a slightly different activity. It will not just be incubation activities, here technological companies will be added that are recent, new ventures, at a more advanced level than the acceleration level”.
The new unit of the USP-Ipen Incubator has two warehouses totaling 4 thousand square meters in area and another administrative building, expected to be 1,300 square meters. Also according to Catalani, the advantage of the new space is that it borders USP. “Unit I is within Ipen and suffers from all restrictions imposed by international access legislation. Bordering USP will be Unit II’s biggest differentiator,” he explains.
The inauguration ceremony was also attended by vice-rector Maria Arminda do Nascimento Arruda; the executive director of Fusp, Marcílio Alves; and the CEO of the Technological Research Institute (IPT), Liedi Légi Bariani Bernucci.
“Several of our representatives took seats in different sectors and many meetings and workshops were held. The result of this conversation is that we decided to make the Incubator a Health Sciences hub , a reference in the area for the entire country, said the director of Research, Development and Teaching at the Energy Research Institute (Ipen), Isolda Costa ”.
The director of Incubator II USP-Ipen, Paula Helena Ortiz Lima, also spoke: “we have been thinking a lot about what Brazil places as a priority in this thematic line. We want all these partners to work together, each within their own expertise , and be able to produce intensive technologies aimed mainly at the health sector.”